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MOSCOW – President Trump's national security adviser, John R. Bolton, said on Monday that he had directly criticized Russian officials for being ingested in the US elections, although their actions did not go unnoticed. had no effect on the election results.
Mr. Bolton, who was in Moscow to discuss the US plan to withdraw from a nuclear disarmament treaty, told Echo Radio in Moscow that interference in the elections had been raised during his talks. with senior officials, including the Russian Foreign Minister and the country's chief. Security Council.
Moscow's interference has severely strained relations with the United States and prompted a special council to investigate in Washington whether members of the campaign team and the administration of Mr. Trump were conniving or hindered the investigation.
Mr. Bolton said he was frank with the Russians, according to a transcript of his interview, which the radio translated into Russian for broadcast and posting on his website.
"Today, I told our Russian colleagues that I did not think their interference in our electoral process had any real effect," Bolton said, according to an English translation of the published transcript. . "But something else is important. The very desire to meddle in our affairs creates mistrust towards the Russians, towards Russia. I consider this intolerable, it should not be allowed. "
Bolton said that Russians had been indicted in the United States for their electoral interference. "This bloody and blatant intrusion into the electoral process will be discussed with US legal entities," he said.
Bolton traveled to Moscow after President Trump announced Saturday that the United States would withdraw from a nuclear disarmament treaty, the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Mr Trump said that the withdrawal was motivated by the violation of the agreement by Russia and by the fact that China was not a signatory.
In the interview, Bolton said that the United States would now consult with its allies in Europe who opposed the withdrawal of the treaty as the cornerstone of the nuclear disarmament agreements reached in the last few months of the war. the Soviet Union. Bolton said the treaty was now obsolete, as countries other than Russia and the United States were able to develop intermediate-range missiles.
