Russia might try to affect US presidential election, says Obama

ALL OF US President Barack Obama is wary of Russia's disturbance in america presidential election, recommending Russia might try to influence who gets selected on 8 November. His comments stick to leak of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails attributed by experts to Kremlin-backed hackers.

Almost 20, 000 DNC e-mails were leaked in Summer, which showed that the committee favoured Hillary Clinton over senator Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee for the presidential contest. An investigation by the security firm CrowdStrike has reportedly linked the outflow of the documents to Russia-backed hacker Guccifer payment payments on your zero, who has denied it.
"I know that experts have attributed this to the Russians, " Obama told NBC News within an interview on Tues (26 July). "What we do know would be that the Russians hack our systems, not merely government systems but private systems. "

If the broadcaster asked if the president thought Moscow was trying to sway the US election, Obama responded: "Anything may be possible. " Yet to a question if Russian President Vladimir Putin would prefer Donald Overcome in the White Residence, he said: "What the motives were in conditions of the leaks, all that, I can't say directly. The things i do know is that Donald Trump has consistently expressed popularity of Vladimir Putin. I feel that Overcome has gotten pretty good coverage back in The ussr, " Reuters quoted him as saying.

The time of the leak of the DNC emails is thought to have brought on problems for the party and its nominee. Clinton was officially nominated as the Democratic prospect on Thursday (26 July) at the party's convention in Phila.. She will now face Republican nominee Trump in the election.

It is often generally reported that Trump has not been shy of praising Putin and has called him a "strong leader". The former TV SET personality and business maggiorente last week stated that with him as president in the White House, the US might no much longer automatically come to the aid of a North atlantic treaty organization ally if these were bombarded. He hinted at the Baltic states which were once part of the Russia-led Soviet Union.