Trump Blames Obama and Democrats for Failing to Stop Russian Meddling<br />Mr. Trump said his adviser had “forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and<br />that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems.” The nation’s intelligence agencies believe that it is not possible to make such a calculation about the election outcome.<br />Mr. Trump also called Mr. Schiff, the California congressman, “Liddle Adam Schiff”<br />and branded him “the leakin’ monster of no control,” even as he praised him for his criticism of Mr. Obama’s muted response to the Russian threat<br />“The Russian ‘hoax’ was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia — it never did!”<br />Yet he has repeatedly denied that Russia was behind any meddling, going so far in November as to suggest<br />that he believed President Vladimir V. Putin’s denials of interference over the conclusions of American intelligence agencies.<br />of having missed signals that could have prevented the school shooting<br />because it was “spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.”<br />He then lashed out at his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R.<br />McMaster, who had said at a security conference in Germany on Saturday<br />that the indictment provided “incontrovertible” evidence that Russia had interfered in the American democratic system.<br />Then, on Sunday, Mr. Trump said that he had “never said Russia did not meddle in<br />the election,” quoting a comment he had made in a 2016 presidential debate.
