Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday said he has “no doubt” it was Russia that tried to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election and not “some 400-pound guy sitting on a bed,” as President Donald Trump claimed during the first presidential debate.
Graham cited the U.S. intelligence community’s announcement in January “that the Russians, through their intelligence services, tried to interfere in the 2016 American presidential election.”
“It was the Russians who hacked Podesta’s e-mails, it was the Russians who broke into the Democratic National Committee, and it was the Russians who helped empower Wikileaks,” he said, referring to Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta. “From my point of view, there’s no doubt in my mind it was the Russians involved in all the things I just described, not some 400-pound guy sitting on a bed or any other country.”
During the first presidential debate in September 2016, Trump questioned whether Russia was involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee.
“I mean, it could be Russia. But it could also be China. It could be lots of other people,” Trump said. “It could be somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham: "It was the Russians involved (in 2016 election), not some 400-lb guy sitting on a bed" https://t.co/S1XbBbiL5v
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 8, 2017
