Posted on 09/19/2017 10:06:45 AM PDT by Pinkbell
President Donald Trump's pick for US ambassador to Russia, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, told lawmakers Tuesday that there is "no question Russia interfered in the US election last summer."
Appearing in his nomination hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Huntsman said the interference in the election has directly led to the low level of trust between Moscow and Washington.
The US government publicly announced in October that it was "confident" Russia orchestrated the hacking of the Democratic National Committee in the lead-up to the election.
And in January, days before President Donald Trump took office, the US intelligence community concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an "influence campaign" aimed at hurting Trump's rival, Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton.
Trump has branded the investigation the "single greatest witch hunt" in political history and consistently questioned the intelligence community's findings well into his presidency even though the intelligence community did not conclude that Russian efforts made a difference in the election result.
Congressional committees and a Department of Justice special counsel are investigating alleged Russian interference and any potential coordination between Trump associates and Russia.
Huntsman also said that "Russia continues to threaten stability in Europe" by violating the sovereignty of its neighbors.
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Who is this "US government" that "publicly announced" in October?
“Influence”!
Whooopidee-freaking-doo!
New South Whales Australia influenced the election too, somehow.
This is not INTER-FKN-FERENCE
Huntsman needs to take his daughter Abby on a decade long mission to the Congo.
Huntsman is just another Jeb Bush parroting the Uniparty nonsense.
Remember when somebody signed up at FR and was pimping Huntsman in FReepmail?
LOL - what a joke.
Russia tried to influence our election. So what. Foreigners have been trying to influence our elections for over 200 years. The US tries to influence elections in Russia and other countries all the time. I expect foreign countries to do what they believe is in their own best interests.
He’s a GOPe hack and is spewing the party line.
Too bad Russia didn’t get the president they wanted.
“Why in the world did Trump pick him for ambassador to Russia after he said that he did a terrible job as ambassador to China?”
To get him out of the country?
Yep - anyone who isn’t aware of that has been asleep for at least 70+ years.
Okay, the DNC was hacked and it was revealed that Hillary was a lying piece of sh!t. And she broke federal laws. Why doesn’t Huntsman say that? (pssst, he’s establishment)
Didn’t Obama and some of his henchmen actually GO to Israel for the specific purpose of influencing their election a few years ago? Every country tries to wreak some level of havoc in other countries’ elections.
They do it. We do it. “Spy vs. Spy”.
But no problem for your secretary of state sell Russians 20% of your uranium reserves for a $150 million dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation. That’s just wonderful...
Insofar as Russia had bought influence in the Clinton campaign, it's possible. If Huntsman is accusing the Trump campaign, then he's lying. Thanks Pinkbell.
He had no influence as a private citizen. I want Ted Lieu out of the country, but I wouldn’t make him ambassador to Russia.
I wonder what his comments would be concerning Ted Kennedy and the Soviet Union regarding the 1984 election?
Probably the treasonous IC bosses.
That would be Obama & Co.
And Killary supporters were carrying signs at that time, “It’s Not Rigged, You’re Just Losing” while her Thighness herself was nagging Trump about supporting the eventual winner
https://youtu.be/XRJ8TLCZdnI *Hag alert
just as Uniparty demanded he sign that paper promising the same.
Then when Indiana happened, they skulked to their tents on the beach. Donald Trump has had to deal with a hive of corruption and villainy since that day he came down the escalator and announced.
When is Sessions going to show up to work?
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