Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for Vladimir Putin, says there’s too much “hysteria” surrounding speculation of who met with Russian officials during the 2016 U.S. election cycle.
In fact, Peskov claims, members of the Clinton campaign met with the Russian ambassador during the election, something Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently faced criticism for doing and the issue that led to Gen. Michael Flynn’s firing, although Sessions maintains the talks had nothing to do with the campaign.
The House intelligence committee will hold its first session on Russia on March 20 over allegations of so-called “election interference.”
“Well, if you look at some people connected with Hillary Clinton during her campaign, you would probably see that she had lots of meetings of that kind,” he said. “There are lots of specialists in politology, people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary,” Peskov said on CNN Sunday.
There’s been no response from the Clinton team over the allegations.
Meanwhile, on the future relationship between the U.S. and Russia, Peskov said President Putin’s initial contact with President Trump was “quite promising”, but Moscow was increasingly disappointed with the communications from the White House. The two leaders will both be at the G20 Summit in Hamburg in July.
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