Russia denies interfering in US polls
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RUSSIA yesterday denied it was interfering in the United States election campaign after President Barack Obama refused to rule out that Moscow could be trying to sway the vote in favor of Donald Trump.
“President (Vladimir) Putin has repeatedly said that Russia has never interfered and does not interfere in internal affairs, especially in the electoral processes of other countries,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said as he denied Russia was involved in a hack of Democratic National Committee e-mails.
“Moscow has carefully avoided any actions, any words that could be interpreted as direct or indirect influence on the electoral process.”
The Kremlin had already shrugged off accusations by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Russia was involved in the embarrassing leak of e-mails meant to help Republican presidential candidate Trump as “absurd.”
“If you talk about some suspicions regarding our country, then you need at the very least to be precise and concrete,” Peskov told reporters.
In an interview with NBC News yesterday, Obama said that “anything was possible” following suggestions that Russia could have been behind the hack.
Obama said he could not speak about the precise motive for the hack or subsequent leak but was aware of Trump’s positive comments about the Russian leadership. “What we do know is that the Russians hack our systems. Not just government systems, but private systems.”
Trump has made no secret of his admiration for Putin, leading some to suggest the Kremlin strongman was working to help propel the real estate billionaire into the White House.
In December last year, Putin praised Trump as “a very striking man, unquestionably talented.”
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