There have been shocking moments in the Trump presidency, many of them, so many that it's actually hard to count,

but if there were some kind of accounting for all the shocking moments in the Trump presidency,

this one, if we have the video, would certainly be near the top of the list.

Just now, President Putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. Every US Intelligence Agency has concluded that Russia did.

What who, my first question for you sir is who do you believe they think it's Russia I have

President Putin he just said it's not Russia I will say this I don't see any reason why it would be I will tell you that

President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today

The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, standing alongside Russian

President Vladimir Putin aligning himself with Russian claims over U.S. intelligence, and denying

what everyone at that point knew to be true.

Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Throughout his time in office, Trump denied and downplayed and excused Russian interference in America's

elections. He called the investigation into that interference a hoax and a

witch hunt over and over and over again.

And now Mr. Trump is said to be on trial

for his own efforts to overturn the 2020 election

and his baseless claims that the election was stolen.

And Trump's new defense in that case appears to be that the court should believe his claims about

a stolen election and the reason the court should believe the election was stolen is because

of Russian interference. I am not joking. This is

from Trump's lawyer's latest motion in the federal election case. Between

January 2019 and at least December 2020, parties

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