WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin multiple times during their meeting last week on the Kremlin’s efforts to interfere in last year’s presidential election.
But there’s one question Trump did not ask of his Russian counterpart that he now wishes he had: “Were you actually supporting me?”
That Russia was behind a wave of election-year cyberattacks against Democratic institutions and individuals — and that those attacks were intended to aid Trump’s candidacy — has been the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community for months, a conclusion the president himself has been hesitant to accept …read more
Source: European Voice
