Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton says President Obama’s sanctions on Russia are not a sufficient response to Russia’s “attack on our constitutional system.”
“I don’t think they will have much impact at all,” Bolton told “Fox & Friends” on Friday of Obama’s sanctions, calling for actions that will “make the Russians feel pain.”
“The Russians have walked all over the Obama administration for eight years. It’s really been a pathetic performance.”
Bolton noted that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration could reverse Obama’s actions easily.
He added that if allegations are true, the Kremlin’s activity is “utterly unacceptable” and “an attack on our constitutional system.”
“It is not enough to say — and people should be careful about this — to say, ‘Well, it didn’t actually have an impact on the election,’ ” Bolton said.
“The fact that Russia’s efforts were incompetent or insufficient shouldn’t make us feel better. No — it’s the effort that they made, if this is accurate, that should trouble us, not the fact that it failed.”
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