Mike Pompeo warned his Russian counterpart on Tuesday that the United States will not tolerate meddling in its elections, calling such interference “unacceptable:” To which the veteran Russian diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, essentially replied: “Who, us?”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned his Russian counterpart on Tuesday that the United States will not tolerate meddling in its elections, calling such interference “unacceptable.:”Story Continued Below
To some extent, the Russians have been aided in their denials by Trump, who has downplayed the intelligence community’s assertions of a Russian role in 2016. Pompeo, who previously led the CIA, has maintained some distance from Trump on the issue, agreeing with the assessment of Russian interference while also suggesting at times that the problem isn’t limited to Russia.
When his turn came, Lavrov lamented the “wave of suspicion that has overcome Washington,” saying it has “hindered” cooperation between President Vladimir Putin’s government and the United States. In a readout of the meeting later, the White House said that the U.S. president had “warned against any Russian attempts to interfere in United States elections and urged Russia to resolve the conflict with Ukraine.“
“Trump is meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister in the Oval Office — again. Adversaries invited in. Allies locked out,” Rep. Adam Schiff of California, one of the Democrats leading the impeachment investigation, wrote on Twitter. The release of that information — much of which is likely to be highly classified — “would clear many matters up, I believe,” Lavrov said. Pompeo, however, countered: “We’ll publish all the documents we think appropriate. We think we’ve shared plenty of facts to show what happened in the 2016 election with our Russian counterparts. We don’t think there’s any mistake about what really transpired there.
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