MSNBC: Trump Sides with Putin on Election Meddling, Calls It an ‘Artificial Democratic Hit Job’

‘He went a step further and said that the Democrats by continuing to bring this up are actually making it harder for diplomacy and people may die as a result of it’

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JANSING: "Well, it only lasted less than five minutes, according to Sarah Sanders, but it’s causing a lot of controversy back home. You mentioned that statement from Mike Pompeo. It’s because the president of the United States is siding with Vladimir Putin, who says that the interference never happened, siding with Vladimir Putin who he says he’s spoken to multiple times about it over his own intelligence agencies, which have been unanimous in their condemnation of the Russian meddling in the 2016 election, saying all the evidence points to that it happened and have produced evidence to show that it happened, and in fact the president also called out some former intelligence heads. Brennan, clapper and Comey, saying they are no more than political hacks. He went a step further and said that the Democrats by continuing to bring this up are actually making it harder for diplomacy and people may die as a result of it. Let me read to you exactly what the president told reporters aboard air force one. Quote, and this artificial democratic hit job gets in the way. It gets in the way. And that’s a shame because people will die because of it. And it’s a pure hit job. And it’s artificially induced. And I think it’s a shame that something like that can destroy a very important potential relationship between two countries that are very important countries. Russia could really help us. He said that he believes Vladimir Putin is very insulted by this, that he’s trying to build a better relationship with Vladimir Putin so that they work — can work together on things like North Korea and he had criticism for Hillary Clinton saying she was in way over her head when she tried to deal with this and former President Obama simply did not have the right chemistry."

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