Putin: U.S. political drama diverting attention from Russia
And he’s very happy about it.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s pleased that the “political battles” in Washington have put on the back-burner accusations that Russia interfered in U.S. elections.
“Thank God,” he told an economic forum in the Russian capital on Wednesday, “no one is accusing us of interfering in the U.S. elections anymore; now they’re accusing Ukraine.”
Some Republicans have used the public hearings to tout a discredited conspiracy theory that blames Ukraine, not Russia, for interfering in the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In the impeachment hearings, Democrats in Congress say Trump pressured his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden while withholding U.S. military aid to Kyiv, and argue that may be grounds for removing Trump from office.
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