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Hillary Clinton, pictured with Laurene Powell-Jobs, at the Ozy Festival in New York City on July 21, 2018.
The lack of a public record of the meeting has raised alarm bells among people critical of Trump’s handling of Russia. Amid confusion and contradictory statements from the president and other policymakers in the ensuing days, “this idea that we are not sure where our own president stands is deeply disturbing,” she added.
“Putin has been giving press statements, reaching out to other world leaders and telling the world what was decided,” Clinton said.
However, “we are hearing crickets from the White House. Nothing is being put out that is in any way contradictory or replacing the Putin agenda with whatever Trump was doing.”
With the U.S. intelligence committee warning that Russian hackers are still trying to undermine the U.S. electoral system today, Clinton agreed that Moscow’s covert influence is still a big risk.
Russia’s interference “is a direct attack on our democracy,” Clinton added.
