Trump clarifies Putin comments: 'I'm with our agencies' on election meddling

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY BROOKE SEIPEL - 11/11/17 11:07 PM EST

President Trump clarified his comments Sunday on whether he believes Russia meddled in the U.S. 2016 presidential election, saying, "I believe in our intel agencies."

Trump had told reporters on Air Force One Saturday that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin when he says he didn't meddle in the election.

“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 Saturday.

The comment quickly became the subject of backlash, prompting Trump to clarify the comments in a joint press conference with Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang on Sunday morning local time.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/359972-trump-clarifies-putin-comments-im-with-our-agencies-on-election

[doc03]

1. What a yellow coward he talks tough about China, kisses their ass in China then talks

tough about China in Viet Nam. He kisses Putin's ass one day then walks it back the next when Putin in gone.
Oh I am so happy tRumps heel spurs are better he finally was able to go to Nam.

[groundloop]

2. That wasn't a clarification, it was just another lie to appease his critics

What a fucking joke.

[NickB79]

3. Trump translator: "Clarification", a 180 degree spin from previous statement

[PearliePoo2]

4. Who straightened him out that he needed to "clarify"? Kelly?

Someone else in the adult day-care team?

He is so pathetic and such a liar, it's beyond words.

[Maxheader]

5. Didn't hitler

lie to most of europe about his intentions of a peace-full
coexistance?

[eppur_se_muova]

6. "Clarify" now means "states the opposite of previous statement". nt

[L. Coyote]

7. It was "election interference" and not simple "meddling"

They try to downplay the criminality at the same time as denying it, a COMMON ASPECT OF LYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EarthFirst]

8. "I believe in our intel agencies."

Multiple agencies; up to and including the Mueller investigation have said that they have reasonable suspicion to believe that Russian intervention in the 2016 elections is credible; worth looking into.

[SergeStorms]

9. So......Russia...

DID and DIDN'T interfere in the 2016 Presidential election? Well, thanks for clearing that up, Trumputin.

[Blue_Tires]

10. You know, the media would never allow a real politician

to contradict, I mean **clarify** himself on so many occasions without serious puchback...

But of course Trump still gets treated like a TV celebrity so this shit wil continue to happen...