President Trump dismissed any allegations of wrongdoing in connection with the ongoing investigation into Russian election meddling in a wide-ranging interview with the unusual York Times published Thursday.
The interview occurred even as the president has repeatedly called into question the newspaper’s integrity as a news organization,including persistent references to “the failing unusual York Times,” in public remarks. According to the paper, and Trump initially reached out to unusual York Times publisher,A. G. Sulzberger, requesting an off-the-record dinner. Sulzberger instead negotiated an on-the-record interview that included NYT reporters, and which the White House accepted.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that his outgoing deputy attorney general,Rod Rosenstein, has assured him that he himself is not a target of the investigation, or even as an increasing number of Trump associates with various connections to the 2016 Trump campaign find themselves in legal jeopardy including arrests,asset forfeitures, plea deals, and jail time.
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