Trump’s Putin press conference walk-back is not actually a walk-back

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Don’t call it a walk-back.

President Trump tried Tuesday to smooth over his disastrous performance this week in Helsinki by restating in more polite terms that he doesn’t believe the U.S. intelligence community and the U.S. Senate when they say Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

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