Trump Corrects Himself: I Meant 'I Don't See Any Reason Why It WOULDN'T Be Russia'

[DonViejo]

By Nicole Lafond | July 17, 2018 3:00 pm

President Donald Trump on Tuesday attempted to walk back his public support of Vladimir Putin’s denials of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, by correcting one word he from his press conference on Monday.

“In a key sentence in my remarks said the word would instead of wouldn’t,” he said. “The sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t or why it wouldn’t be Russia.’ … Sort of a double negative. So you can put that in, and I think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself.”

Trump said he realized he need to clarify that word choice after reading through the transcript of the press conference, which he requested because he couldn’t figure out why the media was being so critical.

“I came back and I said, ‘What is going on? What’s the big deal?'” he said. “I thought it would be obvious, but I would just like to clarify just in case it wasn’t.”

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[Zoonart]

1. Total fkng liar

[brush]

23. Wonder how long Sanders and Conway and the rest of his lackey...

staff poured over the transcript of that debacle of a presser yesterday to figure out what they could do to clean up his mess.

The only thing they could settle on was "wouldn't" instead of "would".

Yeah, right.

Hahahahahahahahaha!

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. Fox reaction (shepherd smith) not on today hmmm

"President trump clarification well done now on to ms 13)

Smh

[LBM20]

3. PATHOLOGICAL FUCKING LIAR!!! Watch the tape! This fucker knew just what he was saying!

[uponit7771]

4. Trump admits "slip of the tongue" !?!?! Please someone tell TPM they're enabling the traitor !!!

[Golden Raisin]

22. The only tongue slippage at the Helsinki Press Conference

was further up Putin's butt.

[Mad-in-Mo]

5. He read?

Wait, he read the transcript?

[procon]

6. What a lame explanation!

Trump says we should only believe one word and ignore everything else he said during his presser with Putin and again in his interview with Hannity. This is totally out of context with everything else he
said and it makes no sense to change one single word while the bulk of his replies that trashed our country are forever available on video.

[gademocrat7]

7. Pathological liar

Who is also treasonous bastard that needs to be removed from office.

[leftstreet]

8. 'Retracting' the words makes you look WEAK, Don. Good!

The ONLY thing that seems to cause Trump stress is looking weak

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Did the dog eat his homework, too?

Who believes that excuse? I'm sure during his meeting with congressional Rs, they all cooked this lame explanation up.

[techne7319]

10. Enough already

Nothing to clarify, bud. It’s all very clear where you stand with respect to your country, it’s institutions, and its citizens. Another little lie isn’t going to change it.

[oasis]

11. No one other than his Deplorables are buying that flim flam.

[HopeAgain]

12. Like there is nothing else...context, expression, etc.

Yet his minions will believe him.

[left-of-center2012]

13. ...

[HipChick]

14. Bull horseshoe...His people and lying Sanders would have been out left right and center

cleaning it up..

[Blue_Tires]

15. "Wouldn't" doesn't change the context of this ONE FUCKING BIT!

Link to tweet

[NewJeffCT]

16. If he misspoke

why did he not correct himself on Sean Hannity last night? Hannity was spoon feeding him everything, why not correct the record then?

Why did he have to wait 17 or 18 hours after Hannity to finally say that he misspoke? Why not have the White House issue a statement last night or early this morning?

[FakeNoose]

19. He stood in front of Putin and said all of it

Don't you think Pootie would have corrected him and made him change it?
Trump meant what he said and so did Pootie. This is ridiculous!

[octoberlib]

17. "LOCK HER UP!" "I actually meant to say DON'T lock her up"

[coti]

18. What he should have meant to say was "I RESIGN."

[Solly Mack]

20. No he didn't but now news will be filtered through the possibility of "If"

As in if he did...blah blah blah ...which will eventually (and sooner) morph into some republican saying the president explained himself and case closed.

It's bullshit gristle for the gnawers - the lie, that is.

Trump said exactly what he meant to say. Everything else after is a lie.

Sure, some will continue to call out the lie - a good thing.

But as far as the GOP is concerned, it's over and done with - they will not say anything to Trump or do anything about him.

[greyl]

21. I don't know why anyone would post a headline like that, verbatim.

It's bullshit. He did not correct himself. He did not "admit he had a slip of the tongue". He lied. Furthermore, "wouldn't" is about 0.4% less bad than "would", and since it's attached to the rest of the statement "I don't see any reason...", it makes no damn difference.

[IcyPeas]

24. but... he is a genius..... a stable genius