Obama told Putin to stop

meddling in US election

Re: “Recall Obama scoffing at warning about Russians?” (Letter to the editor, Mercurynews,com, Dec. 4):

The letter-writer correctly points out that Russian election meddling occurred on President Obama’s watch and asks why Democrats haven’t been challenged to explain that.

As a Democrat, I’d like to do that.

When Obama administration learned about Russian attempts to help Donald Trump get elected, the president told Putin privately to knock it off, but was hesitant to go public with this information, because Trump and people like the letter-writer would cry bias and accuse Obama of rigging the election.

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Alex Rozovsky

Sunnyvale

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