The Russians alone were behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters Tuesday.
"It was the Russians. I'm 1,000% confident that the hack of the DNC was by Russian operatives, no one else," Graham said on Capitol Hill per a report in the Hill.
"I have no evidence [Ukraine] did. Russia stole the emails, not the Ukraine," he added.
President Donald Trump has promoted the conspiracy that Ukraine interfered in the election, falsely claiming that a “Ukrainian company” is harboring a hacked server belonging to the DNC.
"A lot of it had to do, they say, with Ukraine," Trump said in late November during a phone interview with “Fox & Friends.”
"The FBI went in and they told them get out of here, we’re not giving it to you. They gave the server to CrowdStrike ... which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian, and I still want to see that server,” Trump said of the DNC's actions upon learning that it had been hacked. "You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. That's a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?"
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., last week said he believed it was possible Ukraine was to blame. He later backtracked.
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