Trump sows confusion with tweet conceding Russia helped him win 2016 election
by Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2019
4 minutes
WASHINGTON - Maybe it was a presidential epiphany. More likely, it was a Twitter miscue.
Either way, President Donald Trump appeared to concede for the first time Thursday that Russian intelligence agents tried to help him win the 2016 election, as the U.S. intelligence community has concluded, a reversal of his long-held claims.
Trump later reversed himself again but the episode highlighted the difficulty he faces rejecting the official U.S. assessment, backed up by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's recent investigation and two grand jury indictments, that the Kremlin deployed a combination of fake news stories,
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