The Big Denial: Trump Suggests Putin Wanted Clinton to Win, Though Son’s Emails Say the Opposite

While President Trump reportedly spent the past few days “watching TV news and venting about the [Russia] investigation,” his public reaction to the scandal over Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer was limited to two brief comments praising his son’s “transparency” and calling him a “high quality person” caught up in “the greatest Witch Hunt in political history.”

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