What a difference a day makes, huh? Take it away, Donald Trump:
BREAKING: Trump says he accepts intelligence conclusion that Russia meddled in 2016 election https://t.co/tJW0y7rCC8 pic.twitter.com/YKc9LntviL
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) July 17, 2018
BREAKING: Trump says 'I accept' US intelligence agencies conclusions on Russian meddling.
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 17, 2018
Trump: I have full faith and support for America’s intelligence agencies..I always have. Russia’s actions had no impact let me be clear. I accept our interest community conclusion that meddling took place..There was no collusion at all.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 17, 2018
JUST IN: Trump says election meddling took place, but Russian actions had no impact https://t.co/d6s6E63h5h pic.twitter.com/NeVU5F4Dem
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) July 17, 2018
UPDATE: Trump says Russia actions had no impact on outcome of elections, accepts U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddling took place pic.twitter.com/GHA7cvMkhL
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) July 17, 2018
MORE: Trump says he meant to say in Helsinki that he saw no reason why it would not be Russia that interfered in elections
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) July 17, 2018
via pool: TRUMP tells reporters at WH that he "accepts our intelligence community conclusion that meddling took place”
TRUMP adds that he meant to say he saw no reason why *it would not be* russia who interfered in 2016 election
— kelly cohen (@politiCOHEN_) July 17, 2018
He meant to say?
well, he literally said the exact opposite https://t.co/9ZMhd8dgQW
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) July 17, 2018
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https://twitter.com/katiepack/status/1019292736615092224
https://twitter.com/cmdeb/status/1019291014886854656
Oof.
Better late than never, but in this instance 24 hours is pretty late. https://t.co/kDvONLkscG
— Brit Hume (@brithume) July 17, 2018
Pretty damn late, yeah.
https://twitter.com/michi83/status/1019291986526920704
This might have been helpful yesterday. https://t.co/vRQ0PuZIvo
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) July 17, 2018
Yeesh.
President Trump: "In a key sentence in my remarks I said the word 'would' instead of 'wouldn't'…the sentence should have been, 'I don't any reason why it wouldn't be Russia.' Sort of a double-negative." pic.twitter.com/wFob1xfzp2
— CSPAN (@cspan) July 17, 2018
What?
A "speak-o"?
Trump shamelessly lying to backtrack to the right position is better than shamelessly digging his heels into the wrong one, but still a clown show. https://t.co/zK6GXXTS7C
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) July 17, 2018
You can’t honestly believe Trump really meant to say “wouldn’t” in that sprawling defense of Putin. It went on for 90 seconds. It was a complete coherent defense of Russian actions. He was much clearer yesterday than he was today in that rambling, contradictory statement.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) July 17, 2018
The best part of this is definitely the cultists who spent yesterday (dishonestly) attacking the credibility of our intelligence agencies to defend Trump only to have him concede the truth today. https://t.co/aprifAWeXN
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) July 17, 2018
Me when Trump takes one side of an issue then the other within 24 hours just to make everyone freak out and fight online to own the libs. pic.twitter.com/NoZzIk7eMZ
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) July 17, 2018
Many people are saying this is the best do-over, believe me.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 17, 2018
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets as well as video and text.
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Update:
There was no actual walk-back. The president continues to question the IC conclusion it was Russia: “I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia meddling in the 2016 election took place. Could have been other people also. Lots of other people out there”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 17, 2018
Ugh.