Washington – President Donald Trump denied Monday he ever worked for Russia, answering a question he declined to directly address over the weekend.
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Speaking from the South Lawn before departing the White House for New Orleans, Trump called former FBI and Justice Department officials “known scoundrels” and “dirty cops.” He was reacting to a New York Times report that law enforcement officials began investigating, in 2017, whether Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against U.S. interests.
“I never worked for Russia,” he told reporters. Trump didn’t directly answer the question in a Saturday Fox News interview.
“I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked,” Trump told Jeanine Pirro, a personal friend. “I think it’s the most insulting article I’ve ever had written, and if you read the article you’ll see that they found absolutely nothing.”
Trump went on to assert that no president has taken a harder stance against Russia than he has.
“If you ask the folks in Russia, I’ve been tougher on Russia than anybody else, any other … probably any other president, period, but certainly the last three or four presidents,” he said.
White House aides expressed regret over the weekend that the president did not more clearly and forcefully deny being a Russian agent when asked by the usually friendly Fox News host, according to three White House aides and Republicans close to the White House. The three spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss private conversations.
Trump Monday defended his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, a move that has drawn the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump called the Russia probe “a whole big fat hoax.”
“Trump denies..” Stormy too.
The question should be about his loans received from Russian banks when no one else would lend to him not whether he ” worked for Russia”.
I don’t think he declined to answer. I think that he felt he responded adequately.
So where’s the transcripts of his secret mtgs w Rooskies in the WH, and w Pootinski? Why keep them secret? Dem House will subpoena them, boychicks.
He had to wait to get the OK from Vladimir to deny.
this whole “investigation” is a HOAX – just to hurt the President of the United States of America. These anti-Trumpets don’t realize that they are hurting themselves and all American citizens and all who truly elected this President.
What small hands. He should keep them in his pants pockets.
Is your house intelligence related to ED Archie’s EDucation?
you got to hand it to the fake media they are very creative, they have the poorly educated people that watch CNN believe their agenda