Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., excoriated Russia on Friday after being briefed that the Kremlin is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic primary and the 2020 election.
"The intelligence community has been very clear about it — whether Trump recognizes it not, or acknowledges it or not, they did interfere in 2016," Sanders told reporters. "The intelligence community is telling us they are interfering in this campaign right now in 2020. What I say to Mr. Putin: If elected president, trust me, you will not be interfering in American elections."
The Washington Post reported on Friday U.S officials have briefed President Trump, other lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and Sanders, who has recently become the front-runner in the Democratic contest. This comes as President Trump was sharply criticized this week for pushing out Joseph Maguire, his acting director of national intelligence because he was angry that lawmakers on Capitol Hill were briefed that Moscow is interfering to aid his re-election in 2020.
"Does this mean we are not allowed to do anything to stop it [attacks on our elections]?" asked Rachel Maddow on her show Friday, of Trump's firing of Maguire.
"Is the president effectively issuing a 'stand-down' order to the U.S. military and U.S. intelligence agencies to *not* protect us from this attack from a foreign antagonist? Just the events from these past weeks or so are so extreme in where we thought we would slide to in our lifetime."
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