Trump says he didn't talk about Russian election interference in his latest call with Putin

President Trump.
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President Trump says he doesn't believe Robert Mueller's most dire warning, and suggests you shouldn't either.

On Thursday, Trump told reporters that he'd called Russian President Vladimir Putin the day before and had a "short talk but a good talk." But the topic of Russia's interference into America's election system didn't come up, Trump said, and then suggested that he still doesn't believe in the interference his intelligence officials have concluded definitely happened.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.