On January 8, 2017 (December 11, 2016 lunar calendar), Trump admitted for the first time that Russian hackers had interfered with the US election. Data map: Russian hackers elected the US president Data map: Russia elected the US president Since the 2016 US election, the United States has been accusing Russia of "interfering with the US election with hacking". International Online Feature: According to a report by Reuters on January 9, 2017 local time, on January 8, 2017, the US President-elect Trump team admitted for the first time that Russian hackers had invaded and interfered with the US election, and said it would take countermeasures. Trump's newly appointed White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said that Trump believes Russia had interfered with the Democratic convention during the US election. But Mr. Priebus did not say whether Mr. Trump believed Mr. Putin had directed the act. "Trump accepts that the Russian team did this," Mr. Priebus said on Fox News Sunday. It was the first time the Trump team had acknowledged that Russian hackers had interfered in the US election. Mr. Trump has resisted similar claims that "Russian hackers interfered in the US election" or that "Russian hackers helped Trump win the presidency". As Mr. Trump's January 20 inauguration approaches, pressure is mounting from within his own party, with many arguing that the president-elect should better communicate and cooperate with the US intelligence community and endorse the latest leads from the latter. Last week, US intelligence published a report that Mr. Putin had "orchestrated a sophisticated plan, including cyberattacks," to disrupt the Democratic campaign. "This is just the beginning of showing that American democracy is no more credible than Mr. Putin's version." One US official said the 2016 election was considered the "most divisive" in US presidential history.