{"id":369844,"date":"2018-07-18T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-backtracks-on-russian-interference-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T02:17:10","slug":"presstv-trump-backtracks-on-russian-interference-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-backtracks-on-russian-interference-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump backtracks on Russian interference comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US President Donald Trump has gone back on his earlier remarks in Finland about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, a day after he ignited a nationwide and bipartisan furor by siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Addressing reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Trump claimed that he had misspoken during a joint press conference with Putin in the Finnish capital of Helsinki, and meant the opposite of what he said there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cHe just said it\u2019s not Russia,\u201d the US president had said in Helsinki, repeating Putin\u2019s denials of interference in the vote. \u201cI will say this, I don\u2019t see any reason why it would be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Conceding an extraordinary syntactical slip, Trump said during a brief appearance at the White House that the comments needed &#8220;some clarification&#8221; after his close allies called on him to change course.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cI said the word \u2018would\u2019 instead of \u2018wouldn\u2019t,\u2019\u201d Trump told reporters, reading from a prepared&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/18\/568444\/Donald-Trump-Russian-meddling-US-election-Helsinki-summit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has gone back on his earlier remarks in Finland about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, a day after he ignited a nationwide and bipartisan furor by siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Addressing reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Trump claimed that he had misspoken during a joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}