Russia Fires Back at Senate Report on 2016 Election Interference, Trump Ties

[TomCADem]

Source: US News and World Report

Russian state media fired back Tuesday at a damning bipartisan report the Senate issued earlier in the day that documented Russia's interference in the 2016 election and close ties between its espionage agencies and officials in Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

"The Kremlin regrets that as the U.S. presidential elections in November 2020 approach, more and more reports of alleged attempts by Russia to interfere in the electoral process will appear," state news service TASS included in an article about the report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, citing a statement earlier this year from a Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Such statements "have nothing to do with the truth," Peskov said previously.

Peskov and Putin have denied multiple times any Russian interference in the 2016 election. Tuesday's report, the fifth and final from the intelligence committee and signed by both Democratic and Republican members, was based on interviews with 200 people and more than 1 million pages of documents, reviewed over the span of more than three years.

It found that Putin himself ordered the interference campaign, and that senior members of Trump's inner campaign circle maintained close relationships with influential Russian oligarchs and intelligence operatives. Among them was Konstantin Kilimnik, confirmed to be a Russian spy, who received internal polling data from Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman. The report does not conclude why Manafort shared the information with Kilimnik but suggests it may have been connected to Russian intelligence agencies' "hack and leak operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russia-fires-back-at-senate-report-on-2016-election-interference-trump-ties/ar-BB187dPN

[Iliyah]

1. Of course they do . .

shithole only believes Putin over the USA. Putin has given orders to treason barr and senate republicans to deny and make up shit by blaming USA citizens. Rudy G and Pompeo are on it as well.

[PSPS]

2. This is news? Were people expecting an admission?

[paleotn]

3. Russia lying again?

Say it ain't so.

Child of the cold war here. It's simply natural to take anything coming from Moscow with a train load of salt. The Kremlin is still a bullshit factory.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Ve no do doze things

[Traildogbob]

5. Putin Strongly denies

End of story. Fake news. Hoax. Deep state radical left. Believe me. That I can tell you. We looked at it strongly. Russia, Russia, Russia! Stone, Flynn, Manafort were treated very badly by the Democrat news machine. All are Patriots. All will have cabinet positions in the 2nd 3rd 4th terms. Then under the Ivanka Presidency, then under Jrs command. Barron will need younger patriots on his team.

[Layzeebeaver]

6. Clearly....

we MUST ACCEPT Putin's excuse.

Of course.

because there is no way in hell that there is any other way that this shit has come down in another manner.

[Midnight Writer]

7. I can't wait until we get a real President who will stand up to Putin.

[ancianita]

8. Here they are, in our house, presuming their right to make Russian reality making in our house.

"Regrets"... yah that's a likely story. As much as our Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report is trash.

[Swede]

9. The Streisandski effect.

Nothing to see here comrade.