US Indicts 12 Russian Spies for Election Hacking

Whatever US President Donald Trump had hoped to get out of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Robert Mueller changed the game. But the C-SPAN caller – who clearly hated the idea of a Hillary Clinton presidency – seemed to take it as a positive for the candidate she supported. I have President Putin.

But he simultaneously denounced the Mueller investigation as a “rigged witch hunt”, and said he has been “tougher on Russian Federation than anybody”.

The Kremlin is reaffirming its denial of meddling in the USA election.

In a July 27, 2016, speech, then-candidate Donald Trump called on Russian hackers to find emails from Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent in the US presidential campaign.

Both accounts are alleged to be key part of the plot to interfere with the election, controlled by the indicted agents and used to leak stolen emails from Clinton’s campaign and other Democratic Party accounts. The illegal hacking is said to have released tens of thousands of communications in a sweeping effort by a Moscow to meddle in the election.

In Friday’s indictment, the Justice Department accuses the Russian officers of hacking into Democratic accounts during the 2016 election campaign and releasing the stolen information in the months before Americans headed to the polls.

President Donald Trump is dismissing suggestions that Russia has compromising intelligence about him after a news conference in which Trump declined to criticize President Vladimir Putin for Russian interference in the 2016 USA presidential election.

Putin denied anew that the Russian government interfered, regardless of what nongovernmental Russian actors might have done. I don’t know him [Putin].

But Trump did not see that motive in play. Former Gov. Chris Christie, a one-time Trump adviser and now an ABC News consultant, said Mueller wanted Trump to enter his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin with this indictment in front of him. I’ve been told that by a number of people, we had much better defenses so they couldn’t.

President Trump responded Saturday to the Justice Department’s indictment of 12 Russian military officers for hacking into Democratic campaign files by questioning why President Obama failed to stop the intrusion in 2016.

Setting the scene just hours ahead of his summit with Vladimir Putin, Trump took to Twitter to lash out at U.S. special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s probe.

“I think the indictment, in all honesty, is a complete exoneration for me”. Where is the server? And I’m sure he wants to do well for his. There would be no political loss, and, in fact, great political gain, for Trump to endorse that finding. He is right that the committee did not turn its communications system over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the agency investigated Russian hacking.