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

By Becket Adams
Published July 17, 2018 9:10pm ET
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Trump’s Putin press conference walk-back is not actually a walk-back
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. It’s a neat trick, simply rewording the thing […]

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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2016 Elections CIA Dan Coats Donald Trump FBI Robert Mueller Russia Vladimir Putin