This would be Russia interfering in the American presidential election, which is deeply alarming and completely unacceptable if it bears out to be true.” “We believe the vote over Brexit in the UK cannot easily be analogised to the presidential election in the United States,” he said. As soon as the vote happened, they came out and said, ‘Well, maybe we didn’t mean it with those promises’. Jake Sullian, a senior foreign policy adviser to the Democratic nominee, predicted that Americans would learn the lessons of Brexit and not vote for her Republican rival Donald Trump. “If it is indeed the case that Russia was behind this hack, this would be a new watershed.

Source: The Guardian July 25, 2016 12:57 UTC