President Donald Trump said Tuesday he accepts that Russia sought to influence the 2016 US election, and that he misspoke by appearing to accept Vladimir Putin’s denials over those of his own intelligence chiefs.
“I have felt very strongly that while Russia’s actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election, let me be totally clear in saying that — and I’ve said this many times — I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place,” Trump said, before a meeting with Republican lawmakers at the White House.
In an extraordinary postscript to Monday’s joint news conference in Helsinki, Trump went on to claim that he misspoke when he appeared to take the Russian leader’s denial of interference at face…
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