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GOP cautious, Dems strident in reaction to new indictments


Congressional Democrats and some Republicans said Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal charges against 13 Russians and three Russian entities offered even more proof that Moscow had meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

Top Democrats on the Hill argued that the indictments provided clear evidence that the Russian government used an aggressive social media campaign to sway U.S. voters to back Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, though the handful of Republicans who weighed in made no mention of either presidential candidate.

“We have known that Russians meddled in the election, but these indictments detail the extent of the subterfuge,” Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in a statement. “These Russians engaged in a sinister and systematic attack on our political system. It was a conspiracy to subvert the process, and take aim at democracy itself."


Source :  thehill

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