Saturday, March 24, 2018

Asked about U.S. election meddling, Putin resorts to an anti-Semitic smear

https://thinkprogress.org/asked-about-us-election-meddling-putin-resorts-to-an-anti-semitic-smear-25e5d0a97db5/
"Vladimir Putin, who repeatedly has denied meddling in the 2016 US election, suggested in a new interview that the massive cyber operation targeting the presidential vote might have been carried out by “Ukrainian, Tatars or Jews — but with Russian citizenship.” The Russian leader pointed the finger at Jews and ethnic minorities in his country during an interview broadcast late Friday on NBC television, in which he frostily dismissed any knowledge of the cyber-intrusions into the American electoral system. But Putin added that he “couldn’t care less” if operatives from his country were, in fact, found to have been responsible for operation."