House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) is clocking 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden after he downplayed any Russian meddling in the election under his or former President Barack Obama’s watch.
Biden promised during a CNN interview aired on Friday that Russian election interference “wouldn’t have, and it didn’t” happen “on my watch, on Barack’s watch,” as IJR Red reported.
After Special Counsel Robert Mueller released his final report of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the Obama administration came under fire for “completely [dropping] the ball on Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign.”
As The New York Times previously reported, the Obama Administration knew about the Russian meddling but didn’t announce it sooner in fear of being “perceived as taking sides in the election,” former Secretary of Homeland security Jeh Johnson told the NYT. – READ MORE