{"id":149478,"date":"2018-07-17T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149478"},"modified":"2018-07-17T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:16:46","slug":"trump-says-he-misspoke-russia-election-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149478","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he &#8220;misspoke,&#8221; Russia election interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-101458\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Trump-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Trump-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Trump-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Trump.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\">President Donald Trump says he meant the opposite<\/a> when he said in Helsinki that he doesn&#8217;t see why Russia would have interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the White House on Tuesday, the president told reporters that he said he meant he doesn&#8217;t see why Russia &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t&#8221; be responsible.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he accepts the American intelligence community&#8217;s conclusion that Russia interfered in the election, but he denied that his campaign had colluded in the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke a day after returning to the U.S. to nearly universal condemnation of his performance at Russian President Vladmir Putin&#8217;s side in Helsinki. Putin said he wanted Trump to win the race against Democrat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>In Helsinki, Trump delivered no condemnation of Russia&#8217;s interference and refused to say he believes American intelligence agencies over Russia&#8217;s denials of meddling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014\u00a0 President Donald Trump says he meant the opposite when he said in Helsinki that he doesn&#8217;t see why Russia would have interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections. Back at the White House on Tuesday, the president told reporters that he said he meant he doesn&#8217;t see why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149482,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149478\/revisions\/149482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}