Trump says he's never doubted Russian meddling. Here are the multiple times he has.
It’s on tape, in tweets, and in transcripts.
By Emily Stewart Feb 18, 2018, 2:26pm EST
On Sunday morning, as he is wont to do, President Donald Trump tweeted — once, twice, three times, and more. It was a busy presidential morning. One missive in particular, however, stood out: “I never said Russia did not meddle in the election,” Trump wrote. “I said ‘it may be Russia, or China or another country or group, or it may be a 400 pound genius sitting in bed and playing with his computer’. The Russian ‘hoax’ was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia — it never did!” This would make sense, if it were even a little bit true.
It appears the president is suffering from a bit of Russian-meddling-denial amnesia, or perhaps a case of selective memory: Trump has publicly doubted increasingly clear evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. And he’s done so a lot. Fact-checking website PolitiFact declared Trump’s continued proclamations that Russian interference is a “made-up story” as its 2017 Lie of the Year.
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Trump still isn’t sure whether President Obama was born in the US, but he thinks Vladimir Putin seems like a stand-up, honest guy
Trump has repeatedly said he takes Russian President Vladimir Putin at his word when he denies meddling in the 2016 election, because he seems like a nice enough guy, right? “Every time he sees me he says, ‘I didn’t do that, and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it,” Trump said of Putin last November, while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One.
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