Putin compares Clinton team to antisemites over Russia accusations

Source: Washington Examiner | June 2, 2017 | Joel Gehrke

Russian President Vladimir Putin compared Hillary Clinton and others who accuse Russia of conducting cyberattacks against the Democratic Party to anti-Semites who say “the Jews are to blame” for various problems.

“It’s easy to say it’s not our fault, it’s the Russians, they intervened, they interfered,” Putin said through a translator during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday morning. “It’s like antisemitism. ‘The Jews are to blame; you are an idiot because the Jews are to blame.’ And you know what, such moods are — they will end up in nothing good.”

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Putin cast doubt on the U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusions that Russia was behind the cyberattacks against the Democratic Party. He said there is no evidence of his government’s involvement and that it could have been faked. He also insisted that, in any case, the information released by the hackers was true.

“We should stop this idle prattle, which is harmful and I believe is like transferring the internal bickering of the United States outside of the country,” Putin said during a panel moderated by NBC’s Megyn Kelly.

Putin, after Kelly reminded him that President Trump has acknowledged Russia’s responsibility for the cyberattacks, seemed to suggest the hacks would have been justified if his team were responsible for them.

“Look at what your colleagues are doing in our country,” he said. “They have been deep down in our domestic policies, doing what they want, enjoying themselves on a systemic basis for many years. They’ve unceremoniously, grossly interfered within our domestic affairs at the level of diplomatic embassies. This has to stop and it’s going to be easier for everyone — for you and for us as well.”

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