El Rinso Preebus said that Trump absolutely did NOT believe Putin’s denials about meddling in the U.S. election, which completely contradicts Sergei Lavrov’s version of the meeting.
Watch below:
I’m a little skeptical because it took them so long to deny it. And Trump himself has been less than clear about this. He’s denied it completely, and only recently began implying that he kinda sorta believes that Putin interfered.
But, just like Rinso does in the clip, Trump makes it painfully clear that he wants to exonerate Putin as much as possible by saying there are a ton of countries that interfere in our election all the time. Also, Russia has been doing this forever, so I guess it’s OK. What great patriots these guys are!!!
Here’s Clapper contradicting Trump on the “everybody interferes in our elections!” narrative.