U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly released the following statement Friday evening about President Trump’s scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in Helsinki.
Donnelly, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, “The indictment against 12 Russian intelligence officials for interfering with the 2016 election is just the latest evidence of Russia’s deliberate efforts to disrupt our democracy. I hope President Trump will cancel his meeting with President Putin and in doing so, make clear that efforts to undermine our elections, attack critical U.S. infrastructure, and act as a destabilizing force abroad will not be tolerated.”
The indictments from the Special Counsel announced by the Department of Justice Friday came before Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats sounded the alarm, warning of a potentially devastating cyberattack on U.S. systems and citing that among state actors “Russia has been the most aggressive foreign actor, no question.”
