Russian president Vladimir Putin tried to overthrow the government of Montenegro, republican senator John McCain said appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation. He added that Montenegro was a beautiful little country.
He also said that Vladimir Putin “got away with” trying to change the result of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and that there has been “no penalty” for those attempts.
“We know that Russia tried to change the outcome of our election last November. And they did not succeed, but there was really sophisticated attempts to do so,” McCain said, emphasising that so far Moscow “has not paid a single price for that”.
“If you were Vladimir Putin, who I’ve gotten to know over the years, you’re sitting there and you got away with literally trying to change the outcome not just of our election. French election. Tried to overthrow the government of Montenegro, a beautiful little country. And there has been no penalty whatsoever,” McCain said.
When asked about one of Mr. Trump’s tweets Sunday morning in which the president said he and Putin “discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit,” McCain laughed at the notion of such a plan, saying “I am sure Putin could be of enormous assistance, since he’s doing the hacking”.
The Tramp announced that the unit would deal with the protection against hacker attacks during the election campaigns. He also spoke about the issue of Russia’s meddling in the US election, which he also discussed with Putin in Hamburg.
Trump said that during his recent meeting with Putin, he “strongly pressed” the president on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, and that Putin “vehemently denied it”.
“I’ve already given my opinion,” Mr. Trump tweeted.
