DONALD Trump has now said Russia did not meddle in the US election in an astonishing U-turn from his remarks at a meeting with Vladimir Putin just days ago.
As the lights quite literally went out in the White House during a filmed interview, Trump claimed he “misspoke” on the saga he has long branded a “witch hunt”.
Even then he made a point of adding: “It could be other people also. A lot of people out there. There was no collusion at all.”
But he refused to reverse other comments in which he backed Putin’s “extremely strong and powerful” denial of Russian involvement.
During his statement, the lights in the room faded to complete darkness, prompting Trump to joke that “it must be the intelligence agencies”.
None of this explained why Trump, who had tweeted several times and sat for two TV interviews since the Putin news conference, waited so long to correct his remarks.
Throughout his presidency, Trump has dismissed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into election meddling and collusion with his administration as a “witch hunt”.
In one of many, many examples dating back to September 2017, he tweeted to say allegations of Russia buying Facebook ads to influence voters was a “hoax”.
In July of the same year, he wrote: “As the phony Russian Witch Hunt continues, two groups are laughing at this excuse for a lost election taking hold, Democrats and Russians!”
Going even further back, to December 2016, he said: “If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act?”
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