2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/RUSSIA: “The whole concept of that [Russian interference in the 2016 election] came up perhaps a little bit before, but it came out as a reason why the Democrats lost an election — which, frankly, they should have been able to win, because the Electoral College is much more advantageous for Democrats, as you know, than it is to Republicans.
We won the Electoral College by a lot — 306 to 223, I believe. And that was a well-fought — that was a well-fought battle. We did a great job.
And, frankly, I’m going to let the President speak to the second part of your question. But just to say it one time again, and I say it all the time: There was no collusion. I didn’t know the President. There was nobody to collude with. There was no collusion with the campaign.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump and President Putin of the Russian Federation in Joint Press Conference,” whitehouse.gov, July 16, 2018