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- President Donald Trump told two top Russian officials in 2017 that he wasn't worried about Russia's interference in the 2016 election, The Washington Post reported Friday.
- Trump said he wasn't bothered by it because the US had also conducted similar operations, the report said.
- White House officials were said to have been so alarmed by the remarks that they limited the number of people who had access to a memo of the meeting to as few as possible, three former officials told The Post.
- The revelation adds to a list of controversial comments Trump made during the meeting. In addition to disclosing classified intelligence to the Russians that the US had gotten from a close ally, Trump also boasted that firing the "nut job" FBI director, James Comey, had taken "great pressure" off of him.
- The US extracted a top spy from Russia shortly after the meeting, reportedly in part because officials were concerned about how the Trump administration handled classified information.
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President Donald Trump told two senior Russian officials during an infamous 2017 Oval Office meeting that he wasn't bothered by Russia's interference in the 2016 US election, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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