TIL Desk/World/Washington/ United States President Donald Trump claimed that his predecessor, Barack Obama, was aware of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential polls before the elections itself. Trump lashed out at Obama on Twitter, asking why the latter did not alert anyone about the same.
“So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign? Because it is all a big hoax, that’s why, and he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win!!!” Trump tweeted.
In 2016, the Obama administration had accused Russia of posting hackers during the presidential race and slapped sanctions against Moscow for the same. The US intelligence agencies stated in a report that Russia was responsible for breaching the US electoral system.
Obama also reportedly told Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop Moscow from meddling in the US elections. Earlier, Trump touched off a major political controversy following his comments on Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential election at his joint press conference with Putin in Helsinki. On July 16, Trump had endorsed Putin’s stance on Russia’s non-involvement in the 2016 US presidential election.
