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former presidential candidate and founder of the Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Dr. Ron Paul, told RT in a wide-ranging interview that also touched on Syria.
Following reports that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for personally directing a cyberattack that cost her the 2016 presidential election, Dr. Paul shrugged off the allegations as
a "fiasco" in an interview with RT's Neil Harvey. "I think they're just agitating, because they lost the election. They're throwing out accusations and
they have no proof," the former Republican congressman for Texas said.
"The same people who are making all these charges, they
didn't seem to be worried a bit by the secretary of state having a private server," Paul said, "which
made it much easier for Russia or anybody else to know what was going on."
Paul, a libertarian advocate of a foreign policy of non-intervention, went on to explain that ideally, the US should not have to worry about any other country having an incentive to interfere in US elections. The root of the problem, Paul believes, is in the
US government doing the exact thing it now accuses Russia of doing."The American people should be worried about the
influence of our CIA in other people's elections, I mean probably hundreds. It's constant," he said, even going as far as to allude to
"domestic assassinations" the CIA has allegedly taken part in.
Comment: Paul, having been in the American political arena, experiencing front and center the surface and covert workings of the US government, has put words to what many suspect the great American democracy has become - a bottleneck where a shadow government pulls the strings and the masses are manipulated as the means to its end.