Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated that Russia sought to sow chaos during the 2016 election and had anticipated a Hillary Clinton victory, according to an interview published Sunday by the New York Post.
Gabbard shared her assessment during a conversation with the Post’s Miranda Devine on the “Pod Force One” podcast, set to be released Wednesday.
“As we’ve learned in later documents that we’ve reviewed throughout that campaign, Russia believed that Hillary Clinton would win the election,” Gabbard said. “They felt it was inevitable.”
Russia was accused of hacking the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) emails in 2016, and an ODNI memo released in July stated, “supporting evidence [indicates] the Russian government directed hacking of the DNC and the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee].”
