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Headline Roundup July 16th, 2018

Trump Says He Believes Putin on Russian Election Interference

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President Donald Trump expressed that he believes Vladimir Putin over claims of election meddling, saying that “I don’t see any reason why” the country would have interfered in the 2016 presidential race. His statements came after special counsel Robert Mueller recently charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic computer servers in 2016, with Trump calling the probe a "disaster for our country."

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Trump publicly sides with Putin on election interference
Trump publicly sides with Putin on election interference

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President Donald Trump on Monday publicly sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies, refusing to condemn the Kremlin for interference in the 2016 election

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President Trump: Don't 'see any reason why' Russia would have meddled in 2016 U.S. election
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President Donald Trump Monday appeared to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, prompting a sharply critical response from U.S. lawmakers.

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Trump blasts Mueller probe, Putin denies meddling as leaders tout summit as ‘success’
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President Trump and Vladimir Putin tackled allegations of election meddling in unprecedented terms following their one-on-one summit Monday, with Trump opening the door to an unusual offer of cooperation in the special counsel probe and the Russian president suggesting he indeed favored the billionaire businessman in 2016.

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