US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands ahead a meeting in Helsinki in July 2018 AFP/Brendan SmialowskiWASHINGTON: Donald Trump and Russia on Friday both angrily dismissed US intelligence's account that Moscow is meddling in this year's election as Democrats accused the president of betraying democracy.
"Another misinformation campaign is being launched by Democrats in Congress saying that Russia prefers me to any of the Do Nothing Democrat candidates who still have been unable to, after two weeks, count their votes in Iowa," Trump tweeted, referring to the debacle in releasing results from the Democrats' first contest.
The Senate, led by Trump's Republican Party, acquitted him on Febr 6, after which the president swiftly removed officials who provided evidence against him.Former CIA director John Brennan, who served under presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush, said the United States had entered"a full-blown national security crisis."
"It should worry, all of us, that we now live in an America where one political party seems to think that foreign interference helps them in an election," she said at a CNN forum with voters in Nevada. Representative Eric Swalwell, who serves on the House intelligence committee, tweeted simply:"Agent for Russia."Few Republican lawmakers immediately spoke out, although Trump's allies in the past have questioned why Russia would favor him.
While Maguire would have been obliged to leave next month as he was serving in acting capacity, Trump on Wednesday replaced him with Richard Grenell, the outspoken US ambassador to Germany.
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