Russia is going to get outted so bad.

Russia’s ambassador to the United States insisted Friday that the Kremlin didn’t hack the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, inveighing against a “paranoid” American fixation on Russian espionage.<br><br>But as he denied any nefarious election meddling, Ambassador Sergey Kislyak stood in a most incongruous location: the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where Russian hacking had stolen front and center.<br><br>Kislyak had arrived at the DNC to attend a reception hosted by the U.S.-Russia Business Council, another manifestation of how Russian President Vladimir Putin views the American presidential election as fertile ground both for diplomatic outreach — and for stirring up trouble.<br><br>With Republicans gathered in Cleveland this week, Kislyak had two diplomatic missions. On Monday, he met with Donald Trump’s new running mate and an influential senator skeptical of Trump’s Russia-friendly views. Then he jetted to Philadelphia to schmooze with Democrats.<br><br>But Kislyak’s dual outreach couldn’t shake the cloud of controversy hanging over Russia amid allegations that its intelligence agencies had hacked email accounts of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. The fallout was intense enough that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC chair, stepped down on the eve of the convention.<br><br>The ambassador rejected the idea that Russia was responsible — and argued that the Obama administration hasn’t produced proof of its claims — but the criticism was suffocating. He repeatedly shifted in his seat as reporters in Philadelphia lobbed questions about the alleged hacking, and at one point seemed to have lost his cool.