“Maybe The US Paid Them”: Putin Blames “Ukrainians Or Jews” For Election Meddling
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 03/10/2018
A week after initial excerpts of Megan Kelly’s interview Russian President Vladimir Putin were released, the Russian presidential office published the full transcript of the full interview on its website on Saturday morning, specifying the conversation took place in two seatings, in the Kremlin on March 1 and in Kaliningrad on March 2.
As we noted last week from the initial excerpts, despite Mueller’s 37-page indictment, Putin said he has seen no evidence thus far that the alleged meddling broke any laws.
“We in Russia cannot prosecute anyone as long as they have not violated Russian law… At least send us a piece of paper… Give us a document. Give us an official request. And we’ll take a look at it.”
“Could anyone really believe that Russia, thousands of miles away… influenced the outcome of the election? Doesn’t that sound ridiculous even to you?” Putin asked…
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“It’s not our goal to interfere. We do not see what goal we would accomplish by interfering. There’s no goal,” Putin said.
Putin said Russia has neither the tools nor the will to meddle in elections. He repeatedly complained during the interview that Washington has brushed off Russian initiatives to work together on cybersecurity issues.
In the most aggressive and controversial section of the entire, often-combative, 90-minute interview with NBC television, Putin suggested that we do not know if these people were Russians, that “they may have been Ukrainians, Tatars or Jews”, and that the whole operations may have been a false flag: “maybe, the US paid them for this.”
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