Trump tries to calm political storm over Putin summit, claims he misspoke on Russian meddling

After outrage over his failure to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable at their summit in Helsinki, President Trump is claiming that he misspoke when taking Putin's word over his country's intelligence agency's findings on Russian meddling. He also said that he accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia did in fact meddle in the 2016 American election.

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