Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both disowned Russian interference in the 2016 election when asked at a press convention in Helsinki.
Trump was asked point-blank about whether he believed the U.S. brightness community’s findings of Russian meddling, to which he replied, “I don’t see any reason why it choice be.” Trump continued to praise Putin and repeated the Russian leader’s renunciation of election meddling.
Putin, according to the U.S. president, was “extremely strong and high in his denial.”
During his opening speech, Putin denied the charges, communicating “the Russian state has never interfered … in internal American concerns.”
In addition to denying collusion with Moscow on multiple occasions, Trump knocked the ongoing Justice Department probe into his campaign, saying it was harming the relationship between the two as a wholest nuclear powers.