A spokesperson for the Kremlin says the Russian ambassador met with advisers to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the campaign, it has been reported.
“Well, if you look at some people connected with Hillary Clinton during her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind,” Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesperson, told CNN, as quoted by The Hill. “There are lots of specialists in politology, people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary.”
The Clinton advisers who met with the official, he added, had worked for “think tanks.”
Peskov says the job of the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, is to meet with officials with both Republican and Democratic candidates to speak about “bilateral relations.”
His comments come a few weeks after the Justice Department confirmed President Donald Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, met twice with Russia’s ambassador to the United States last year. There were also reports saying Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions with Kislyak before Election Day.
