I didn’t watch the full interview that Putin gave to NBC recently, but certain snippets have been show on the news and online. When discussing (but not specifically denying) Russian hacking of the US election, Putin made the comment that, just maybe, patriotic Russians — totally not at the direction of the Kremlin or other leadership — decided to do coordinated hacking all by themselves.  Kind of like all those “volunteers” who woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine, right? You know those guys, the ones who weren’t acting on Kremlin or military authority to start a war with a neighboring country, and yet still had access to unlimited amounts of armaments, ammunition and resources? It was probably their 3-year old children doing the hacking.

We know that Putin has and continues to lie about the invasion of Ukraine. Remember, he lied about Crimea too, until he admitted doing all that stuff. Given such a track record, I’m comfortable saying he’s lying again.

As if there was any question about that.