Russia is reacting with an 'I told you so' on Monday in state media after the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Moscow's involvement in the U.S. presidential election didn't find evidence of collusion.
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Mueller said in a passage from the report quoted by U.S. Attorney General William Barr that there was no evidence that Trump "was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference."Until Monday, there was little to no coverage in Russia of the Mueller investigation. Russian media didn't closely follow all the leaks that accompanied the probe, but referred to the investigation from time to time as an example of what they described as U.S.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had a more muted reaction on Monday, saying that Russia has never interfered in elections in other countries and "doesn't intend to do so."Thirty-four people, including six Trump aides and advisers, were charged in the investigation. Twenty-five are Russians accused of election interference either through hacking into Democratic accounts or orchestrating a social media campaign to spread disinformation on the internet.
State-owned Channel One on its morning news show suggested that U.S. media had been consciously whipping up the hysteria about possible collusion in order to sway the public opinion against Russia.
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