President Trump sought to backtrack after saying he would accept foreign help for his reelection campaign — but then still wouldn't rule it out.
President Trump has been under fire from both parties over his comments in a recent ABC News interview.
Trump’s revised stance did little to assuage critics who warned the president is setting the country up for a repeat of the foreign interference in the 2016 election that led to a lengthy special counsel investigation, multiple congressional inquiries and widespread concerns about the integrity of U.S. elections.
“It's certainly clear, even after the turmoil of the last two years, the president hasn't learned anything, or if he's learned something, he's learned the exact wrong lesson,” said Rep. Adam Schiff , chair of the House Intelligence Committee. “He's learned that he can accept foreign help and still escape the law.”
That set off alarms all day Thursday on Capitol Hill, with Democrats expressing outrage and Republicans distancing themselves from the president’s position. Federal law expressly prohibits foreigners from making gifts to U.S. political campaigns. “If I don't listen, you're not gonna know,” Trump said. “Now, if I thought anything was incorrect or badly stated, I'd report it to the Attorney General, the FBI. I'd report it to law enforcement, absolutely.”Max Bergmann, who directs the Moscow Project at the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank, said Trump viewed his campaign’s contacts with Russia in 2016 as appropriate and saw no reason to change.
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