Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile said Sunday she wishes the government had done more to help the DNC after repeated hackings prior to the election and she was “a little disappointed” in President Obama, though she refused to blame him outright.
“When I saw the president, I was a little disappointed,” Brazile said on ABC News’ “This Week.” “We were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable. We didn’t know what was coming next.”
The Obama administration informed the DNC in May of the cyberattacks. Obama personally told Russian leader Vladimir Putin in September to stop, Brazile said. That message was ignored by Putin.
“No, they did not stop. They came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly,” Brazile said. “In terms of [the government] helping us to fight — we were fighting a foreign adversary in a cyberspace, the DNC, we were no match and yet we fought constantly.”
Brazile said it was not just a partisan group being hacked that bothered her, but the “harassment” of individuals, candidates and donors.
Host Martha Raddatz asked if Brazile, who took over for former chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., over the summer, was not specifically disappointed in the president’s response.
