Watch: White House struggles to contain fallout from Trump-Putin summit
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The White House struggled on Wednesday to contain the furore over President Donald Trump's heavily criticised summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying Trump ever meant to say that Moscow was no longer targeting the United States. Trump, facing aWatch: White House struggles to contain fallout from Trump-Putin summit
The White House struggled on Wednesday to contain the furore over President Donald Trump's heavily criticised summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying Trump ever meant to say that Moscow was no longer targeting the United States. Trump, facing a political uproar over his failure to confront Putin during their Helsinki summit on Monday over Russia's 2016 US election meddling, adopted his usual defiant posture, calling his critics deranged. Asked by reporters before a morning Cabinet meeting at the White House whether Russia was still targeting the United States, Trump shook his head and said, «No.» But at a later news briefing, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the president was saying «no» to answering questions not to the question itself. Sanders said Trump believes the threat from Russia to undermine November's US midterm elections still exists and that Moscow would still target American elections. «The president has made clear to Vladimir Putin that he should stay out of US elections,» Sanders said. «The president and his administration are working very hard to make sure that Russia is unable to meddle in our elections as they have done in the past.» US... Read more