Donald Trump said on Saturday he believes Vladmir Putin’s denials of Russian involvement in the manipulation of the 2016 presidential election. The intelligence assessment with regard to Russian election meddling has not changed.”Trump spoke after a brief meeting with Putin on the margins of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Vietnam. Trump also claimed the investigation was preventing a normalisation of relations with Putin and therefore could cost countless lives around the world. Because again, if we had a relationship with Russia, North Korea which is our single biggest problem right now, it would help a lot,” he said. However, court papers show Papadopoulos was in frequent contact with senior campaign staff, mostly about plans to bring Trump and Putin together.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2017 10:44 UTC