Trump, after Helsinki summit, says he has confidence in U.S. intelligence


  • World
  • Tuesday, 17 Jul 2018

U.S. President Trump looks on during a joint news conference with Russia's President Putin after their meeting. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, facing a barrage of criticism for his comments during a news conference in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, insisted in a post on Twitter on Monday that he has "GREAT confidence in MY intelligence people."

U.S. lawmakers roundly condemned Trump for his comments at a news conference with Putin where he cast doubt on his own intelligence agencies' findings that Russia meddled with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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