Trump says no president has been as 'tough' on Russia as him
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During the cabinet meeting at White House, Trump said, 'We're doing very well, probably as well as anybody has ever done with Russia'
The United States President Donald Trump who came under fire after his closed-door meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, said that no President has been as "tough" on Russia as he has.
During the cabinet meeting at White House, Trump said, "We're doing very well, probably as well as anybody has ever done with Russia."
Trump is facing criticism that he failed to hold Putin to account over the 2016 US election meddling at their Helsinki summit.
"Look at what we've done. Look at sanctions," he said while adding, "And I think President Putin knows that better than anybody. Certainly a lot better than the media."
"He understands it, and he's not happy about it," Trump said. "And he shouldn't be happy about it because there's never been a president as tough on Russia as I have been, he said."
Earlier in the day, Trump made a series of tweets in which he slammed haters of Putin as he defended his meeting amid the backlash.
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Trump tweeted, "Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia."
He then called this, Trump "Derangement Syndrome" and said that "They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!"
He continues then in another tweet that, "3.4 million jobs created since our great Election Victory - far greater than ever anticipated, and only getting better as new and greatly improved Trade Deals start coming to fruition!"
Meanwhile, Trump refused to blame Russia for meddling in the 2016 US elections, as he said, he accepts US intelligence agencies' reports claiming Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
Trump said he had misspoken earlier when he had said "I don't see any reason why it would" or why Russia would interfere in the US elections.
Responding to a question on Monday on whether he believed US intelligence agencies' reports which concluded that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, Trump had said he was not convinced it was Moscow.
Trump had said,"I don't see any reason why it would, President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
Clarifying his stance on Tuesday, the US President said he responded to the question by using the word "would" instead of "wouldn't".
He said the sentence should have been, "I don't see any reason why it wouldn't, or why it wouldn't be Russia."