‘I don’t think she was treated fairly during the election’: Obama hits out at MEDIA for ‘troubling coverage’ of Clinton and its ‘obsession’ with leaked Podesta and DNC emails-(Is He For Real)

President Obama took some time out of his final press conference of the year to defend Hillary Clinton, chiding the press for what he said was unfair coverage.

Obama hit out at the media after one reporter asked if Russia’s reported hacking of the Democratic Party to help Trump was partially to blame for Clinton’s loss.

‘I think she’s worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people and I don’t think she was treated fairly during the election,’ Obama said as he avoided critiquing Russia outright.

‘I think the coverage of her – and the issues – was troubling,’ he added.

President Obama took some time out of his final press conference of the year to criticize reporters for what he said was ‘troubling’ coverage of Hillary Clinton during her campaign

Obama also criticized the media for its ‘obsession’ with the hacked emails from both the Democratic National Committee and senior aide John Podesta.

‘I’m finding it a little curious that suddenly everyone’s acting surprised that this looked like it was disadvantaging Hillary Clinton, because you guys wrote about it every single day,’ Obama told the room full of reporters.

‘Every single week. About every little juicy tidbit of political gossip, including John Podesta’s risotto recipe.’

‘This was an obsession that dominated the news coverage.’

Obama’s comments echoed what he said during an earlier interview with NPR as he discussed the Russian hack.

Although the president refused to say if he agreed the hack’s motivation was to help Trump, he said the intended result of the leak of emails was clear.

‘What the Russian hack had done was create more problems for the Clinton campaign than it had for the Trump campaign,’ he said.

‘There’s no doubt that it contributed to an atmosphere in which the only focus for weeks at a time, months at a time, were Hillary’s emails, the Clinton foundation, political gossip surrounding the DNC.’

Obama said he believed Clinton has ‘worked tirelessly’ for the American people and said he did not believe she was ‘treated fairly during the election’

A day after Obama’s comments, it was revealed that the FBI and CIA agreed on an assessment that found Russia intervened in the election to help Trump win.

Although Obama didn’t outright endorse the assessment, he promised that Russia would face repercussions.

‘I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections…we need to take action,’ he said on NPR.

‘And we will – at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized, some of it may not be.’

The president revealed on Friday that he had warned Vladimir Putin in September to stop meddling in American political campaigns, telling the Russian president to ‘cut it out’ when they met face-to-face at a G20 meeting in China.

Obama, who said that there was no further evidence of Russian tampering after his warning, did not go so far as to say Putin was directly responsible for the hacking – but made sure to hint at it.

‘Not much happens in Russia,’ he said, ‘Without Vladimir Putin.’