Russia’s Putin authorised pro-Trump ‘influence’ campaign, US intelligence says – By BBC Newsroom (BBC News) / Mar 17 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to have authorised attempts to influence last year’s US election in favour of former President Donald Trump, intelligence officials say.
Moscow spread “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” about the eventual winner, Joe Biden, according to a US government report.
But it said no foreign government had compromised the final results.
Russia called the allegations of election interference “baseless”.
“The conclusions of the report… are confirmed solely by the confidence of the intelligence services of their self-righteousness,” the Russian embassy in Washington said in a statement. “No facts or specific evidence of such claims were provided.”
The US is expected to impose sanctions on Russia as soon as next week over the report’s conclusions, three sources told Reuters news agency.
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