Trump reportedly told 2 top Russian officials that he wasn't worried about Russia's election meddling because the US did it too
- President Donald Trump, during an infamous meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the White House in May 2017, said he was not concerned with Russia's interference in the 2016 US presidential election, according to a Washington Post report published Friday.
- Trump reportedly told the senior Russian officials that the US also conducted similar operations.
- White House officials were said to have been alarmed by the remarks, and it led them to regulate the number of people who had access to them, three former officials told The Post.
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President Donald Trump, during an infamous meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the White House in May 2017, said he was not concerned with Russia's interference in the 2016 US presidential election, according to a Washington Post report published Friday.
Trump reportedly told the senior Russian officials that the US also conducted similar operations. White House officials were said to have been alarmed by the remarks, and it led them to regulate the number of people who had access to them, three former officials told The Post.
The meeting itself was controversial. US-based reporters were not given access, and the media mostly relied of photographs taken from a Russian news agency. But further reporting on the incident revealed that Trump in the meeting was said to have described former FBI director James Comey as a "nut job" and that firing him relieved "great pressure."
Trump also reportedly divulged classified information to the Russians in the meeting, one tht allegedly involved a plan against the Islamic State and a Middle Eastern ally.
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