All this time, Democrats pursued the baseless story that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. Now they're saying we were right! Russia did interfere in the election! And Trump was wrong!
1) No, you said Trump colluded with the Russians
2) And no, Trump didn't say Russia didn't interfere, he said he didn't collude with them
Hillary did collude with the Russians who paid her $145 million and got 20% of US uranium in return. She lied about Russian hackers and refused to turn over the DNC server to hide it. She smashed and bit washed her phones.
It was a get Trump campaign. Democrats have been pro-Russia all my life. Once a Democrat is back in the white house, they won't give a shit about Russia.
Democrats lie, it's what they do.
That's a pants on fire lie you are telling there boy.
Donald Trump falsely denies that he denied Russian meddling
Trump might want to focus on collusion, but his blanket denial that he ever questioned Russian meddling runs up against his own words.
Early on, Trump treated any mention of Russian interference as an attack on the legitimacy of his victory.
In September 2017, when reports of Russian-backed Facebook ads came out, Trump
tweeted, "The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary?"
When the
Washington Post reported in December 2016 that the CIA had concluded that the Russians wanted to boost Trump’s chances, Trump rejected it.
"We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College," he said on
Fox News Sunday on Dec. 11, 2016. "I guess the final numbers are now at 306. She’s down to a very low number. No, I don’t believe that at all."
In a
December 2016 interview with
Time, Trump said "I don’t believe they interfered," Trump said.
During an overseas trip to
Asia in November 2017, Trump spoke of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A reporter asked how Trump brought up the issue of Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
"Every time he sees me, he says, ‘I didn't do that,’ " Trump said. "And I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it."
Asked again if he believed Putin, Trump called several top U.S. intelligence officials "political hacks," and argued that other matters were more important.
"You have President Putin very strongly, vehemently says he had nothing to do with that," Trump said.
So there are any number of occasions when Trump has denied Russian meddling across the board.
In the same interview with NBC’s
Holt where he called the Russian thing "a made-up story,"
Our ruling
Trump said that he "never said that Russia did not meddle in the election."
In reality, he called the matter a "made-up story," and a "hoax." He has said that he believes Russian President Putin’s denial of any Russian involvement. He told
Time, "I don’t believe they (Russia) interfered."
Trump’s denial doesn’t match what he has actually said.
We rate this claim Pants on Fire!