{"id":4558,"date":"2019-05-31T04:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T09:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2019-05-30T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:43:28","slug":"president-trump-you-know-who-got-me-elected-i-got-me-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/president-trump-you-know-who-got-me-elected-i-got-me-elected-20190531","title":{"rendered":"President Trump: &#8220;You Know who got me Elected? I got me Elected.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRussia did not help me get elected&#8230; Russia didn\u2019t help me at all,&#8221; was what President Trump said on Thursday morning after getting fed up with the endless accusations of Russia interfering with the 2016 election. This outburst came a day after special counsel Robert Mueller gave a brief statement on his investigation on Russia and 2016s campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia, Russia, Russia!<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Russia, Russia, Russia! That\u2019s all you heard at the beginning of this Witch Hunt Hoax&#8230;And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn\u2019t exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News Media,&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1134066371510378501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning Trump tweeted that he &#8220;had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected,&#8221; sending reporters into a flurry at this admission. Shortly after he made the tweet, Tump appeared on the White House Lawn and told reporters that he had got himself elected without the help of Russia, and even managed to make a dig at Democrats while he was at it. \u201cYou know who got me elected? I got me elected,\u201d he said. \u201cRussia didn\u2019t help me at all. Russia, if anything, I think, helped the other side.\u201d <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"Ross, Jamie. &#8220;Trump Admits Russia Helped Elect Him\u2014Then Does a U-Turn.&#8221; Daily Beast, 30 May. 2019, www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-finally-admits-russia-helped-him-get-elected.\" id=\"return-note-4558-1\" href=\"#note-4558-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Greatest Presidential Harassment in history<\/h2>\n<p>Since he first became president, Trump has denied all accusations of Russia being involved in the 2016 election. However, after Mueller gave his first public statement on the Mueller report on Wednesday saying that \u201cif we had had confidence that the president had clearly not committed a crime, we would have said so.&#8221; Mueller continued, \u201ccharging the president with a crime is not an option we could consider.\u201d <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"&#8220;Trump: \u2018I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected\u2019.&#8221; 30 May. 2019, news.yahoo.com\/trump-i-had-nothing-to-do-with-russia-helping-me-to-get-elected-130601068.html.\" id=\"return-note-4558-2\" href=\"#note-4558-2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump called it \u201cThe Greatest Presidential Harassment in history,\u201d on Thursday morning, remarking that if Mueller had any charges to bring, he would have brought them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Greatest Presidential Harassment in history. After spending $40,000,000 over two dark years, with unlimited access, people, resources and cooperation, highly conflicted Robert Mueller would have brought charges, if he had ANYTHING, but there were no charges to bring!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1134057302821150722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/><div class=\"simple-footnotes\"><h4 class=\"notes\">Notes:<\/h4><ol><li id=\"note-4558-1\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-4558-1\">&#94;<\/a>Ross, Jamie. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-finally-admits-russia-helped-him-get-elected\">Trump Admits Russia Helped Elect Him\u2014Then Does a U-Turn<\/a>.&#8221; Daily Beast, 30 May. 2019, www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-finally-admits-russia-helped-him-get-elected. <a href=\"#return-note-4558-1\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"note-4558-2\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-4558-2\">&#94;<\/a>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/trump-i-had-nothing-to-do-with-russia-helping-me-to-get-elected-130601068.html\">Trump: \u2018I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected\u2019<\/a>.&#8221; 30 May. 2019, news.yahoo.com\/trump-i-had-nothing-to-do-with-russia-helping-me-to-get-elected-130601068.html. <a href=\"#return-note-4558-2\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRussia did not help me get elected&#8230; Russia didn\u2019t help me at all,&#8221; was what President Trump said on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[210,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}