2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-30-19] offered conflicting signals on whether he believes Russia helped get him elected, but he claimed that he ‘had nothing to do’ with their efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. The president first appeared to acknowledge that Russia helped him in a tweeted complaint about the discussion around special counsel Robert Mueller’s report…Assailing Mueller’s Russia investigation once again as the ‘Greatest Presidential Harassment in history,’ Trump tweeted that ‘highly conflicted Robert Mueller would have brought charges, if he had ANYTHING, but there were no charges to bring!’ But moments later Trump told reporters he was the sole force responsible for his 2016 victory, not the Kremlin. ‘No, Russia did not help get me elected,’ the president said. ‘You know who got me elected? I got me elected. Russia didn’t help me at all. Russia, if anything, helped the other side’…In his report on the investigation, Mueller outlined 10 instances for which he alleged Trump attempted to thwart the probe, including efforts to have the special counsel removed.”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump offers conflicting signals on whether he believes Russia got him elected,” Politico, May 30, 2019 10:22 am