‘I Got Me Elected!’ Trump Declares, Dismissing Reports Of Russian Influence In 2016 Vote

President Trump has had enough of Russia.

“No, Russia did not help me get elected,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn on Thursday as he departed for Colorado Springs. “You know who got me elected? You know who got me elected? I got me elected!” he said emphatically, pointing at himself.

“Russia didn’t help me at all.”

But just hours earlier, Trump posted a tweet on Twitter that prompted the New York Times to declare “Trump Admits to Russia ‘Helping Me to Get Elected’.”

“President Trump on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that Russia helped ‘me to get elected,’ and then quickly retracted the idea,” the Times wrote. “The original comment, a clause in one of several Twitter posts this morning, is an extraordinary admission from Mr. Trump, who has avoided saying publicly that Russia helped him win the presidency in 2016 through its election interference.”

Here’s what Trump said in that post on Twitter. “Russia, Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this Witch Hunt Hoax…And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn’t exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News Media, say he fought back against this phony crime that didn’t exist, this horrendous false accusation, and he shouldn’t fight back, he should just sit back and take it. Could this be Obstruction? No, Mueller didn’t find Obstruction either. Presidential Harassment!”

In his statement on Wednesday, former special counsel Robert Mueller said there were two prime allegations his team investigated.

“As alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system,” he said. “The indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the Clinton campaign. They stole private information, and then released that information through fake online identities and through the organization WikiLeaks. The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate. And at the same time as the grand jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private Russian entity engaged in a social media operation where Russian citizens posed as Americans in order to influence an — an election.”

Mueller never said in his statement whether his team of investigators proved the allegations, instead making the bulk of his comments about alleged obstruction. But he finished with this: “I will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments, that there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. And that allegation deserves the attention of every American.”

Well, the allegation doesn’t. If it’s true, then sure, but not an allegation.

Here’s the bigger problem: Nowhere in the 448-page report compiled by Mueller does it explain how the alleged “social media operation” or “sophisticated cyber techniques” led to 1,405,284 voters in Wisconsin pulling the lever for Trump, or 2,279,543 in Michigan, or 2,970,733 in Pennsylvania — all states the Democratic nominee won in 2008 and 2012.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders summed it up succinctly on Wednesday: “After two years, the Special Counsel is moving on with his life, and everyone else should do the same.”

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