2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, Nov. 11, 2017: ‘He said he didn’t meddle. He said he didn’t meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times. But I just asked him again and he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they’re saying he did.” -In comments to reporters aboard Air Force One, describing a brief conversation he had with Putin during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Danang, Vietnam.
-Melissa Etehad, “In His own Conflicting Words,” The Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2018