Trump retracts comments on Russia’s meddling in US election

US President Donald Trump has been forced to eat his words after he admitted that he actually misspoke on Russian election meddling.

Trump said he accepts conclusions by intelligence officials that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election which brought him into power but he maintains that Russia’s actions had no impact on the election result.

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“I said the word ‘would’ instead of ‘wouldn’t,'” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “The sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia.”

Reports say Republican and Democrat politicians in the US, as well as intelligence officials, on Monday denounced Trump’s failure to challenge his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over interference in the elections.

They also called his responses at a joint news conference with Russian counterpart, Putin in Finland as “shameful” and “disgraceful”.

 

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