Sen. John Kennedy has long been known as a folksy, straight shooter on Capitol Hill. But now his legacy may be something else altogether: The guy who spread a debunked conspiracy theory about Ukraine
“I gave two press conferences yesterday, I’ve done two interviews today, I’ve said all I want to say,” Kennedy said in an interview. “I believe what I believe. I showed everybody the articles. And reasonable people disagree sometimes.”
The Louisiana Republican’s plunge into the world of Trump-backed conspiracy theories stands in stark contrast to previous instances where he’s toed a less partisan line. Those who disagree include senior State Department officials, who reiterated Tuesday to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there is no proof that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. The No. 3 State Department official, David Hale, told senators that he’s seen “no credible evidence about these allegations of Ukraine.”
POLITICO reported in 2017 that some Ukrainian officials "helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers," but there's no evidence of a top-down effort to interfere in U.S. politics. Many Senate Republicans won’t criticize Kennedy directly, though they made clear that Russia, not Ukraine, presents the actual threat to the United States. Sen. Mitt Romney cited testimony from State Department officials.
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