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    Why Won't the White House Call Russian Elections Corrupt?

    Sarah Sanders says the U.S. can’t “dictate” to other countries how to run themselves, but Trump has had no problems labeling repressive governments elsewhere in the world.
    by David A. Graham Mar 20, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    The White House again offered a puzzling response to foreign policy regarding Russia on Tuesday, refusing to criticize the voting that reelected Vladimir Putin by a landslide on Sunday.

    Asked whether the White House deemed the election “free and fair,” Press Secretary Sarah Sanders offered this deflection:

    In terms of the election, there we’re focused on our elections. We don’t get to dictate how other countries operate. What we do know that is that Putin has been elected in their country, and that’s not something that we can dictate to them how to operate. We can only focus on the freeness and fairness of our elections, something we 100 percent fully support, and something we’re going to continue to do everything we can to protect to make sure bad actors don’t have the opportunity to impact them in any way.

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