Deputy national security adviser — and former Fox News personality — K. T. McFarland emailed a friend during the presidential transition to say that Russian interference “threw” the results of the 2016 election to now-President Donald Trump.

According to The Hill, McFarland was complaining about Russian sanctions imposed by then-President Barack Obama in retaliation for efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.

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The sanctions, McFarland wrote, will make it more difficult for Trump to establish good relations with Russia, “which has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him.”

The revelation came from a New York Times report about documents obtained by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.