ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Former President George W. Bush said on Thursday that “there’s pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled” in the 2016 American presidential election, forcefully rebutting fellow Republican Donald Trump’s denials of Moscow trying to affect the vote. “There’s pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled,” Bush said at a talk in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Our democracy is only as good as people trust the results.”U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump win. Speaking of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bush called him “zero-sum.”“He’s got a chip on his shoulder,” Bush said of Putin. He spoke Thursday at a summit in Abu Dhabi put on by the Milken Institute, an economic think-tank based in California.

Source: National Post February 08, 2018 10:03 UTC