Trump questions US intel, not Putin, on Russia 2016 meddling
(WorldNews Politics)

HELSINKI - Standing next to Russia`s Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump openly questioned his own intelligence agencies` conclusions that Moscow was to blame for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election to Trump`s benefit and seemed to accept Putin`s insistence that Russia`s hands were clean. Trump`s comments, at a joint news conference Monday after summit talks with Putin, drew heavy criticism back in the U.S., including from prominent Republicans. Sen. John McCain was most outspoken, declaring that Trump made a `conscious choice to defend a tyrant` and achieved `one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.` Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said Trump made the U.S....