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President Trump on Thursday said Russia did not help him get elected in 2016, contradicting a tweet sent minutes earlier saying Moscow’s election interference helped him win.
“No, Russia did not get me elected,” Trump told reporters at the White House before leaving for Colorado Springs, Colo. to deliver the commencement address at the Air Force Academy.
“Russia, Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this Witch Hunt Hoax...And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn’t exist,” he tweeted before speaking to the media.

Trump’s tweet appeared to be his first acknowledgement of the U.S. intelligence committee’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in order to help his campaign.
But while speaking later on camera, the president returned to his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional Democrats who are weighing whether to impeach him.
Trump called Mueller “conflicted” and a “true never Trumper” who “should have never been chosen” for the job.

© Evan Vucci President Donald Trump talks with reporters in Washington before departing on Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony on May 30, 2019.
The president also said he does not see how he could be impeached, calling it “a dirty, filthy, disgusting word” and saying he is the victim of “a giant presidential harassment.”
“I'm innocent of all charges,” Trump said.
Mueller said Wednesday in his first public comments on the probe that Trump was not charged with obstruction in large part because of Justice Department guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” the special counsel said. “We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.”
Mueller also reiterated that his investigation uncovered “multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election,” something he said “deserves the attention of every American.”

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