Rep. Eliot Engel: Trump plotting to ‘pay back the Kremlin’ for 2016 cyberattacks

Published June 1, 2017 8:58pm ET



A senior House Democrat accused President Trump of planning “to pay back the Kremlin” for the Russian-linked cyberattacks against the Democratic Party during the 2016 elections.

Trump’s team reportedly might return two facilities in the United States that Russia lost when then-President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on the Russians in December as punishment for stealing and leaking Democratic emails. New York Rep. Eliot Engel, one of the House Democratic leaders on foreign policy, accused Trump of having corrupt motives.

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