Trump Blames Obama and Democrats for Failing to Stop Russian Meddling
Mr. Trump said his adviser had “forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and
that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems.” The nation’s intelligence agencies believe that it is not possible to make such a calculation about the election outcome.
Mr. Trump also called Mr. Schiff, the California congressman, “Liddle Adam Schiff”
and branded him “the leakin’ monster of no control,” even as he praised him for his criticism of Mr. Obama’s muted response to the Russian threat
“The Russian ‘hoax’ was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia — it never did!”
Yet he has repeatedly denied that Russia was behind any meddling, going so far in November as to suggest
that he believed President Vladimir V. Putin’s denials of interference over the conclusions of American intelligence agencies.
of having missed signals that could have prevented the school shooting
because it was “spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.”
He then lashed out at his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R.
McMaster, who had said at a security conference in Germany on Saturday
that the indictment provided “incontrovertible” evidence that Russia had interfered in the American democratic system.
Then, on Sunday, Mr. Trump said that he had “never said Russia did not meddle in
the election,” quoting a comment he had made in a 2016 presidential debate.