'There is not a single piece of evidence,' said a Russian foreign ministry official.
The Russian government has dismissed the full report by special counsel Robert Mueller, even suggesting that it clears the government of any culpability of meddling in the 2016 election, despite it stating the opposite.
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airport to spend Easter weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, on April 18. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday, “As a whole, the report as before does not present any reasonable proof at all that Russia allegedly meddled in the electoral process in the United States,” Reuters reported.
Michael O’Hanlon, director of the Brookings Institute’s International Relations Department, told Kommersant that the report would not likely be a boost for Russian President Vladimir Putin and “does not excuse Moscow.”
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