Trump does clean-up after Putin fiasco

''Even the Wall Street Journal described the president’s appearance alongside his Russian counterpart as an ’embarrassment.’

By Matthew Nussbaum

7/17/18, 9:53 PM CET

Updated 7/17/18, 9:54 PM CET

President Donald Trump attempted on Tuesday to clean up his disastrous press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that he had misspoken when he said that he saw “no reason” why Russia would have meddled in the 2016 election.
The attempted walk-back came after the White House endured 24 hours of criticism from all sides for Trump’s appearance beside his Russian counterpart, during which he appeared to reject U.S. intelligence conclusions about Kremlin interference in the American democratic process.

“I have full faith in our intelligence agencies,” Trump told reporters Tuesday, reading from a prepared statement. “There is a need for some clarification. It should have been obvious, it ought to have been obvious.”..
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