Trump's Remarkable Attempt to Walk Back His Russia Comments
A day after dismissing Russian interference in the 2016 election, the president said on Tuesday that he accepts the American intelligence community’s conclusion.
Updated at 4:01 p.m. ET
Facing one of the biggest controversies of his tumultuous presidency, Donald Trump on Tuesday tried to clean up his remarks during a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.
Contradicting his prior comments, Trump said he accepts, with caveats, the American conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. After saying in Helsinki that he saw no reason why Russia would have been behind the hacking, he claimed Tuesday afternoon that he intended to say he saw no reason why Russia wouldn’t be the culprit. But he also insisted that relations
