Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit
16 July 2018
Senior Republican Senator John McCain said it was a "disgraceful performance" by a US president.
"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," Mr McCain said in a statement.
Another senior Republican, Senator Lindsey Graham, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, tweeted that it was a "missed opportunity... to firmly hold Russia accountable for 2016 meddling".
In a series of tweets, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Mr Trump's actions had "strengthened our adversaries while weakening our defences and those of our allies"."
The US Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, also issued a statement saying that the intelligence community had been clear about Russia's "ongoing, pervasive attempts" to undermine US democracy.
Mr Trump responded by tweeting that he had "great confidence in my intelligence people", adding: "I also recognise that in order to build a brighter future, we cannot exclusively focus on the past - as the world's two largest nuclear powers, we must get along."
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Which is what Trump's Cult has done; they've 'forgotten' the past and now claim that Russian Interference in the Election (whether it was Determinative" or not) was and is a hoax.
No matter the solid evidence that Putin did as much as could to interfere, and Trump appreciates that.
