On his repeated expressions of support in Helsinki for Putin’s denial of — rather than US Intel community’s assertion of facts about — Russian cyberattacks on USA, President Trump now says he misspoke and meant to say the exact opposite.
To state the obvious: What President Trump said in Helsinki — and not his ‘I meant to say the opposite’ denial today — is consistent with what he has expressed four years… An affinity for Putin & skepticism about the US intelligence community’s assertions about Russia.
Moreover, POTUS did two FNC interviews after his Helsinki press conference and at no point in the clips that I’ve seen from Hannity or Tucker did the president back off what he said at that press conference in terms of believing Putin, skepticism of US IC, and moral equivalence.
