Washington – U.S. President Barack Obama said it was possible that Russia would try to influence the U.S. presidential election, after a leak of Democratic National Committee emails that experts have attributed to Russian hackers.
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“Anything is possible,” Obama told NBC News in an interview broadcast on Tuesday when asked if the Russians would try to influence the Nov. 8 election.
Obama said the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating the leak on Friday of more than 19,000 DNC emails, which showed the committee had favored Hillary Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders for the party’s presidential nomination.
“I know that experts have attributed this to the Russians,” Obama said.
“What we do know is that the Russians hack our systems, not just government systems but private systems,” he said.
The email leak forced Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida to resign as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
Clinton, who received the Democratic nomination on Tuesday at the party’s convention in Philadelphia, will face Republican Donald Trump in the election.
“What the motives were in terms of the leaks, all that, I can’t say directly. What I do know is that Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin,” Obama said.
Trump has often praised Putin, calling him a “strong leader.” The New York businessman also told the New York Times last week that with him in the White House, NATO might not automatically defend the Baltic states that were once part of the Russian-led Soviet Union.
“I think that Trump has gotten pretty favorable coverage back in Russia,” Obama said.
Obama knows all about interfering in another country’s election. He did so during Israel’s last election,, funding Netanyahu’s opponent..
Does he mean like he tried to sway the Israeli elections?
So what Obama did the same thing in Israel
like he tried to change the israeli election using our hard earned, taxed money
So what? This ignores the fact that a growing number of Americans are fed up with the immorality and corruption that dominate the Obama and Clinton agendas.
I’m not voting for the Manchurian Candidate until he releases his tax returns.
America does more spying on other countries and hacks more conversations than any country in the world.As far as influence the govt brought over Arab Israel politicians and reps to the us and taught them how to consolidate their Arab votes into a block against Bibi.The result was an unheard of 12 vote. Arab block vote but it still didn’t accomplish the us s plan to topple Likud.