Mike Pompeo acknowledged today that there was a “substantial chance” senior Russian officials were behind the poisoning of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged Wednesday that there is a “substantial chance” senior Russian officials were behind the poisoning of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
“People all around the world see this kind of activity for what it is,” he said. “And when they see the effort to poison a dissident, and they recognize that there is a substantial chance that this actually came from senior Russian officials, I think this is not good for the Russian people. I think it’s not good for Russia.”
The Trump administration has been reluctant to assign blame for the attack against the 44-year-old anti-corruption activist. President Donald Trump called the episode “tragic” but said there was not enough proof to know exactly what happened. Pompeo condemned the poisoning in an Aug. 25 statement but did not directly point a finger at the Russian government.
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