Maybe. But it hasn’t worked. Big mistake.I think he walked it back so the media would have to give up and be forced to cover other topics.
If not, you wouldn't hear the end of it until after this November, or probably November 2020...
Trump ‘sided’ with Putin by not calling him a ‘liar’.
He didn’t ‘defend’ our intelligence.
Russia ‘meddled’ with our elections.
All nonsense.
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