Trump Confirms He Would Accept Foreign Dirt on 2020 Opponent. What Now?

During an interview with George Stephanopoulos, a preview of which ABC released Wednesday night, President Trump confirmed that what the Mueller report made clear about his campaign’s relationship with Russia in 2016 — that it was offered, and willingly accepted, help from the foreign adversary — is not only liable to happen again in 2020, it’s almost a certainty.

The clip began with Trump claiming that his son, Donald Trump, Jr., shouldn’t have gone to the FBI when he got an email promising dirt on Hillary Clinton supplied by Russia. “I’ve seen a lot of things in my life,” Trump said. “I don’t think in my whole life I’ve ever called the FBI. You don’t call the FBI.”

When Stephanopoulos tells Trump that the FBI director said Trump, Jr., should have contacted authorities, Trump said the leader of the nation’s top law enforcement agency is mistaken. “The FBI director is wrong,” he said.

The president then explained what most have assumed will be the case in 2020: that if Russia were to offer his campaign damaging information on his opponent again, he would once again have no problem accepting it. “There’s nothing wrong with listening,” Trump said before laying out a hypothetical situation involving Norway, his innocuous foreign nation of choice. “If somebody called from a country — Norway — we have information on your opponent. Oh. I think I’d want to hear it.”

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