US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says nearly the entire Senate believes that Russia interfered in the November presidential election.
“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,” Graham told CNN on Tuesday.
“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.
The US senator further claimed that the alleged meddling in the 2016 vote was not the only case worth prosecution, arguing Moscow’s practice is common across the world.
“It’s just not in our backyard. [Russia’s] doing it all over the world, not just the United States. They’re interfering in elections in democratic countries’ efforts to self-determination all over the world,” Graham said.
Washington first publicly accused…