Vladimir Putin Responds to Charges that Russia Hacked the DNC

The Russian president tells Bloomberg that he does not know who was behind the hacking of U.S. Democratic Party organizations emails but that it was important the information had been made public.

"Does it even matter who hacked this data?" Putin said. "The important thing is the content that was given to the public."

"There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it," he added. “But I want to tell you again, I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level Russia has never done this.”

"I don’t know anything about it" - watch as Vladimir Putin responds to DNC hack claims https://t.co/iIaUeLax2w pic.twitter.com/U2fZTwCzIH

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