Displaying rare bipartisanship, four leading senators from both political parties on Sunday called for an urgent inquiry into allegations of Russian meddling in the recent election.
But the call only served to emphasize the division between their view and that of President-elect Donald Trump, who labeled the charges of Russian meddling “ridiculous” and took new aim at the sprawling U.S. intelligence community, which reportedly has concluded that electing Trump was Russia’s motivation for its actions.
“Recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American,” the senators, who include Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat who is the party’s leader in the Senate, said in a joint statement.
The statement said recent hacking attacks “have cut to the heart of our free society” and require urgent investigation and action to halt the threat they “pose to our national security.”
“This cannot become a partisan issue. The stakes are too high for our country,” the senators said in the three-paragraph statement.
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