{"id":33144,"date":"2018-07-18T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33144"},"modified":"2018-07-18T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:45:28","slug":"trump-lies-about-his-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/trump-lies-about-his-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lies about his Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Helsinki, when Donnie Diaper Dump was bending over in front of Putin and holding his ankles, a reporter asked if Trump believed his own intelligence agencies about Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, Trump said that he would have no reason to believe that Russia had done so.\u00a0 His lie created such an uproar, even within the Republican Reich, that Trump walked it back with a lie about his lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Facing withering criticism over Monday\u2019s deferential joint news conference<\/a> with Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> in Helsinki, President Trump asserted Tuesday that he misspoke when he said that Russia had not interfered with the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me begin by saying that once again, full faith and support for America\u2019s intelligence agencies. I have a full faith in our intelligence agencies,\u201d Trump said, in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n

Speaking from the White House, Trump said that after reviewing a transcript of the press conference he realized that \u201cin a key sentence I said the word \u2018would\u2019 instead of \u2018wouldn\u2019t.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to repeat it, I said the word would instead of wouldn\u2019t,\u201d Trump said, referring to his answer at the press conference, in response to a question about whether Russia had tried to influence<\/a> the American election: \u201cAll I can do is ask the question \u2014 my people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others, they said they think it\u2019s Russia. I have President Putin he just said it\u2019s not Russia. I will say this, I don\u2019t see any reason why it would be,\u201d Trump had said, in a remark that stunned listeners and provoked outrage, even from many Republicans.<\/p>\n

Blasted for questioning the findings<\/a> of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian operatives had meddled in the election \u2014 also a subject of more than two dozen indictments by the Department of Justice \u2014 Trump seemed more open to the intelligence findings, but continued to qualify his remarks. \u201cI accept our intelligence community\u2019s conclusion that Russia\u2019s meddling in the 2016 election took place,\u201d he said. \u201cCould be other people also. A lot of people out there<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

And after attempting to explain his choice of words, Trump again insisted that his campaign had not colluded with the Russians during the election…. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Yahoo News<\/a>><\/span><\/p>\n

Note that even when lying about his lie, he went back to his original lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell<\/a> cover this story in depth.<\/span><\/p>\n