A political analyst says one reason behind US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s remarks about Russia’s alleged interference in the November presidential election is that the Republicans are always looking for a boogeyman to blame.
Graham told CNN on Tuesday that “there are 100 United States senators… I would say that 99 percent of us believe that the Russians did this, and we’re going to do something about it.”
“We’re going to have the hearings. We’re going to put sanctions together that hit [Russian President Vladimir] Putin as an individual and his inner circle for interfering in our election,” he said.
In the run-up to the face-off between GOP nominee Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Washington claimed that some Democratic organizations were hacked by Russians in favor of Trump, a claim that has been rejected by Moscow.
Rodney Martin, a former US Congressional staffer, who spoke with Press TV on Wednesday,…