Rep. Chris Stewart: Russians Certainly Managed to Break Down the Faith in the Electoral Process

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STEWART: "At a time when many Americans are heartbroken, these stories you're talking about, these heroes, the courage they've displayed, God bless them. It kind of protects our hope and our future. Now to your question, you know, it doesn't take a very sophisticated KGB officer to realize that Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, some of these key states would be places that they would likely target. It's important to note these weren't advertisements that were necessarily pro-Trump. They seemed to go in an audience on the left and the right. You had some that targeted those who would associate with Black Lives Matter. You had some that would associate with kind of the alt-right. Across the board, we saw them trying to interfere or trying to, you know, mold people's opinions. And let's remember that the foundational thing that they were trying to achieve was breaking down the faith in the institutions, breaking down faith in our democratic process, and in the electoral process, and oh, my heavens, they've certainly done that, haven't they?"