At a White House press conference on February 16, three days after Flynn had been fired for lying about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, and only weeks after Flynn and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner had met with Kislyak in his own transition office, Trump was asked if anyone in his campaign had been in contact with any Russians. “You can talk all you want about Russia, which was all, you know, fake news, a fabricated deal, to try and make up for the loss of the Democrats and the press plays right into it. In fact, I saw a couple of the people that were supposedly involved with all of this — that they know nothing about it; they weren't in Russia; they never made a phone call to Russia; they never received a phone call. It's all fake news. It's all fake news.”
Asked by another reporter whether anyone on his campaign had contacts with Russians, Trump said: “No. Nobody that I know of. Nobody.”
The reporter persisted: “Can you just say yes or no?”
“Russia is a ruse,” Trump answered. “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.”
Four days later, then deputy White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Russia contacts with the Trump campaign “a non-story because to the best of our knowledge, no contacts took place, so it’s hard to make a comment on something that never happened.”
On March 17 Donald Trump Jr. denied that he met with Russians during the campaign on campaign business. "Did I meet with people that were Russian? I'm sure, I'm sure I did," Trump Jr. said. "But none that were set up. None that I can think of at the moment. And certainly none that I was representing the campaign in any way, shape or form."
In May, during his interview in the White House with Lester Holt on NBC, Trump said "there is no collusion between me and my campaign and the Russians."
In July, just days before the Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials including Donald Trump Jr. and Russians would be revealed, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "I would certainly say Don Jr. did not collude with anybody to influence the election."
On October 30, at her regular White House press briefing, asked about the Papadopoulos guilty plea, Sarah Huckabee Sanders pulled a White House Triple-Salchow with a double reverse twist, and landed the whole Russia collusion thing on . . . you guessed it . . . crooked Hillary: “It doesn’t have anything to do with the activities of the campaign. It has to do with his failure to tell the truth. That doesn’t have anything to do with the campaign or the campaign’s activities. There's clear evidence of the Clinton campaign colluding with Russian intelligence to spread disinformation and smear the President to influence the election," Sanders said.
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/08/trump-wont-stop-lying-about-russia/