--- title: Condoleezza Rice Is 'Appalled' By Russian Election Hacking description: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was "appalled" by Russia's interference in the 2016 election canonical: https://time.com/4771982/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin-russian-election/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-09T12:55:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:49:16.744Z article:section: Politics og:title: Condoleezza Rice Is 'Appalled' By Russian Interference in 2016 Election og:description: "We ought to find a way, ultimately, to punish it" og:url: https://time.com/4771982/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin-russian-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt294408477df5c2be/6988cc89656a3f8630bcfe70/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Condoleezza Rice Is 'Appalled' By Russian Interference in 2016 Election twitter:description: "We ought to find a way, ultimately, to punish it" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt294408477df5c2be/6988cc89656a3f8630bcfe70/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Condoleezza Rice Is 'Appalled' by Russian Interference in 2016 Election > Sponsored content. 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Marla Aufmuth—2017 Marla Aufmuth by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. May 9, 2017 12:55 PM UTC Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was “appalled” by [Russia’s interference in the 2016 election](http://time.com/4750613/house-intelligence-committee-sally-yates-testify-russia-probe/). “Let me just state: I’m appalled by what the Russians did, and we ought to find a way, ultimately, to punish it,” Rice said, speaking on [MSNBC’s _Morning Joe_](https://twitter.com/Morning%5FJoe/status/861902934912749569). Rice added that Russian President Vladimir Putin was gaining “tremendous satisfaction” in watching the U.S. question the legitimacy of its own presidential election, in part due to his [grudge](http://time.com/4422723/putin-russia-hillary-clinton/) against former Democratic presidential nominee [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/). “He is an eye-for-an-eye kind of person,” Rice said of Putin. “Now, he’s going to show us that he can question or he can throw doubt about the legitimacy of our elections.” Rice said the U.S. should declare it has “absolute confidence” in its democratic process to take away any satisfaction Putin has gained since the 2016 election. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4771982/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin-russian-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4771982/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin-russian-election/"},"headline":"Condoleezza Rice Is 'Appalled' by Russian Interference in 2016 Election","datePublished":"2017-05-09T12:55:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:49:16.744Z","description":"\"We ought to find a way, ultimately, to punish it\"","url":"https://time.com/4771982/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin-russian-election/","keywords":["Vladimir Putin","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt294408477df5c2be/6988cc89656a3f8630bcfe70/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt294408477df5c2be/6988cc89656a3f8630bcfe70/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin","caption":"speaks at the Watermark Conference for Women at San Jose Convention Center on February 1, 2017 in San Jose, California.","creditText":"Marla Aufmuth—2017 Marla Aufmuth","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/vladimir-putin/","name":"Vladimir Putin"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4771982/condoleezza-rice-vladimir-putin-russian-election/","name":"Condoleezza Rice Is 'Appalled' by Russian Interference in 2016 Election"}}]}] ```