Robert Mueller has yet to release his report about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but the Kremlin has been rehearsing its response. It's similar to President Trump's description of the probe as a 'witch hunt:'
FILE - In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a state-of-the-nation address in Moscow, Russia. Asked about the allegations of collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia, Putin has charged that the continuing U.S. political infighting reflects a "lack of respect for the voters," who elected Trump.
“They don’t want to acknowledge his victory and do everything to delegitimize the president,” Putin said at his annual news conference in December. In one indictment, Mueller has accused Russia’s military intelligence agency GRU of hacking into the Democratic campaign and releasing the stolen emails through WikiLeaks. Another has charged employees of a Russian troll farm allegedly controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman dubbed “Putin’s chef” for his ties to the Kremlin, with spreading disinformation on social media in a bid to bolster support for Trump and disparage his rival, Hillary Clinton.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has also described the Russia investigation as “an exclusively domestic political story for the United States.” Some lawmakers in the U.S. Congress are pushing for more punishing sanctions, including those targeting Russia’s top state banks.
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