Trump backtracks citing phonetic grammatical based mistakes and misunderstandings

Donald Trump has backtracked on his claim that he “didn’t see any reason” why Russia would be involved in US election meddling.

This evening he said that what he meant to say was he didn’t see any reason why Russian wouldn’t be responsible for meddling in the 2016 vote.

Mr Trump said: “I realise there’s a need for some clarification”, adding that what he meant “should have been obvious – I thought it would be obvious but would like to clarify in case it wasn’t”.

“In a key sentence in my remarks I said the word ‘would’ instead of ‘wouldn’t’.”

Mr Trump was speaking after returning from the Helsinki summit to widespread anger over his performance during a news conference with Vladimir Putin.

He added that he had “full faith and support” for the US intelligence agencies and “accepts” their conclusion that there was Russian interference but he added: “It could be other people also. A lot of people out there. There was no collusion at all”.

“I have felt very strongly that while Russia’s actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election, let me be totally clear in saying that – and I’ve said this many times – I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place,” he said.