Trump Corrects Himself: I Meant ‘I Don’t See Any Reason Why It WOULDN’T Be Russia’

US President Donald Trump holds a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, near Ellesborough, northwest of London on July 13, 2018 on the second day of Tr... US President Donald Trump holds a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, near Ellesborough, northwest of London on July 13, 2018 on the second day of Trump's UK visit. - US President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy, plunging the transatlantic "special relationship" to a new low as they prepared to meet Friday on the second day of his tumultuous trip to Britain. (Photo by Jack Taylor / POOL / Getty Images) (Photo credit should read JACK TAYLOR/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday attempted to walk back his public support of Vladimir Putin’s denials of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, by correcting one word he from his press conference on Monday.

“In a key sentence in my remarks said the word would instead of wouldn’t,” he said. “The sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t or why it wouldn’t be Russia.’ … Sort of a double negative. So you can put that in, and I think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself.”

Trump said he realized he need to clarify that word choice after reading through the transcript of the press conference, which he requested because he couldn’t figure out why the media was being so critical.

“I came back and I said, ‘What is going on? What’s the big deal?'” he said. “I thought it would be obvious, but I would just like to clarify just in case it wasn’t.”

The rare correction from Trump comes one day after his joint presser with Putin, where he blamed both the U.S. and Russia for a deterioration of relations between the two countries and appeared to embrace Putin’s denial that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

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  1. WTF does that even mean?

  2. Avatar for nemo nemo says:

    We really are a banana republic.

  3. And the dog ate his homework. Nice try, Spanky, it’s not going to work (for most of us, anyhow.)

  4. I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t or why it wouldn’t be Russia be charged with treason.

    FIFY, spanky!

  5. Outside of the Trumpian cult, there CANNOT be anyone dumb enough to believe this.

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