Ten Times Trump Denied Collusion With Russia

The drip-drip has now turned into a gusher. In arguably the biggest revelation yet into the allegation that the 2016 Trump campaign had contacts and connections with Russian officials, the New York Times reported last night that Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email before his meeting with Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer that it was part of a Russian government effort to help his father’s campaign against Hillary Clinton. "The email to the younger Mr. Trump was sent by Rob Goldstone, a publicist and former British tabloid reporter who helped broker the June 2016 meeting... Mr. Goldstone’s message, as described to The New York Times by the three people, indicates that the Russian government was the source of the potentially damaging information. It does not elaborate on the wider effort by Moscow to help the Trump campaign."

As the Times writes, there’s no evidence that this promised damaging information was the Russian hacking scheme. Given this NYT story, however, we can count at least 10 times when President Trump has directly said there was no collusion between Russia and his 2016 campaign:

“The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?” (Trump tweet, 5/8/2017)

“There is no collusion between me and my campaign and the Russians.” (Trump interview with Lester Holt, 5/11/2017)...



http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/ten-times-trump-denied-collusion-russia-n781656