Trump points out hypocrisy of mainstream media pushing narrative that Russia interfered in election

President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter early Monday to raise questions about the narrative currently being peddled by the mainstream media: that a CIA report leaked to the Washington Post late last week proved Russia intentionally interfered in the election in order to boost Trump.

The narrative dominated the news cycle over the weekend, as many lawmakers — Republicans and Democrats — called for an investigation into the matter to uncover the truth and determine whether or not the Kremlin actually did interfere in the election.

However, Trump over the weekend called into question the legitimacy of the report, going as far as to say that the CIA report on Russian interference is "ridiculous."

And on Monday, Trump doubled down on that sentiment. He took to Twitter early to point out the hypocrisy of the narrative: that if the political roles were reversed — if Republicans were saying Russia interfered to help Democrats — then Republicans would be labeled "conspiracy theorists."

"Can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and WE tried to play the Russia/CIA card. It would be called conspiracy theory!" Trump tweeted.

And his follow-up tweet quickly generated a bit of controversy. In it, he asked why the "hacking" theory wasn't brought up prior to the election.

"Unless you catch 'hackers' in the act, it is very hard to determine who was doing the hacking. Why wasn't this brought up before election?" he inquired.

But as many were quick to point out, the hacking theory was investigated prior to November's general election. In fact, the FBI had initiated a probe to uncover whether or not there was any legitimacy to the claims after many alleged that WikiLeaks was receiving their John Podesta emails via Russian hackers.

The FBI said in October that there was no legitimacy to the claims, but Hillary Clinton's campaign kept hammering the claim through the closing days of the election.

Now President Barack Obama has ordered a "full review" into the legitimacy of the hacking claims to be finished before he leaves office next month.