Democratic Senator of Virginia Mark Warner on Tuesday didn’t accept President Donald Trump’s clarification for his remarks during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin where Trump trusted Russia’s leader over his own intelligence agencies.
In an interview with CNN Warner said that he didn’t believe Trump, who said that he “misspoke” Monday when he said he saw no reason why it “would be Russia” who interfered with the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
“My feeling is this has a strange resemblance to the President’s comments after he was so offensive to the disturbances in Charlottesville that he equated the Neo-nazis with the protesters,” Warner said, referring to the President’s defense of “good people on both sides” of the violence caused by white nationalists in Virginia last year.
“He then walked back those comments a couple of days later for about twelve hours before he got on another Fox TV show or tweeted again,” the Virginia Democrat added. “So, I give these comments about twenty-four hours before he once again slams the investigation, before he once again sided with authoritarians like Vladimir Putin.”
The President on Tuesday during his White House appearance stated that he meant to say that he saw no reason why it “wouldn’t” have been Russia who interfered with the election during the press conference with Putin.
Trump’s initial remarks Monday caused critical reactions from both Republicans and Democrats, with some of the latter reacting to the press conference with calls for impeachment.
The President regularly denies any collusion with Russia in any way during the 2016 election, he repeated his thoughts on Tuesday at the White House.
“I have felt very strongly that while Russia’s actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election, let me be totally clear in saying…that I accept our American intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place,” the President said, sitting in front of handwritten notes including the words “no collusion.”
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