A federal grand jury has indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for allegedly hacking emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic Party during the 2016 election, the Justice Department announced Friday.Wow. Those Russians better lawyer up. They're really in trouble now.
“The internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said during a press conference.
All 12 defendants are members of GRU, the Russian intelligence agency.
The case stems from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. It comes as President Trump plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for a summit in Helsinki on Monday.
The indictment amounted to the clearest allegation yet of Russian meddling in the election, blaming Moscow for the email hacking scandal that rocked the 2016 race by revealing embarrassing and politically damaging discussions by major Democrats. The charges swiftly fueled calls from Democratic lawmakers for Trump to cancel his Putin summit.
Isn't it amazing that these indictments were handed out just days before President Trump's Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin?
Boy, that timing is unbelievable. What a coincidence!
...The indictment comes as Mueller's team has investigated whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign assisted the Russians.That is the takeaway from all this.
But during his press conference, Rosenstein said, "there is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime."
NO ALLEGATION IN THIS INDICTMENT THAT ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN COMMITTED A CRIME.
Nonetheless, the Democrats are jumping on the indictments to insist that the president cancel his meeting with Putin.
'They Attacked Our Democracy': Top Dems Call for Trump to Cancel Putin Meeting https://t.co/CtaG41Clh0
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 13, 2018
...The Rosenstein announcement came at the same time Trump was meeting with Queen Elizabeth II in England, with plans to meet Putin for a summit on Monday. Trump has previously cited Putin's denials of election interference, while saying he would like their two countries to get along.
“President Trump should cancel his meeting with Vladimir Putin until Russia takes demonstrable and transparent steps to prove that they won’t interfere in future elections," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday. "Glad-handing with Vladimir Putin on the heels of these indictments would be an insult to our democracy.”
This is all so lame.
Of course, the FBI should investigate election tampering, but don't tell me the timing of these indictments isn't political.
It's ridiculous for Democrats to suggest President Trump should cancel his meeting with Putin.
To the contrary, the case could be made that a summit with Russia is more necessary than ever.
Just remember what Obama said prior to the 2016 election, when the Leftists believed Hillary Clinton was poised to become the next president:
BARACK OBAMA: But the larger point that I want to emphasize here is that there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections, in part because they're so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved.
Democrats should follow Obama's advice to then-candidate Trump: Stop whining and go try to make your case to get votes.
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