Personal National Security advisers, and his sitting fbi director because, quote, putin told him it was ukraine. From that blockbuster new report, quote, after meeting privately in july 2017 with russian president Vladimir Putin at the group of 20 summit in hamburg, trump grew more insistent that ukraine worked to defeat him. Thats according to multiple familiar officials. The president s intense resistance to the assessment of u. S. Intelligence agencies that russia systematically interfered in the 2016 campaign and the blame he cast led to think that that putin himself helped spur the idea of ukraines culpability. Trump even stated so explicitly at one point saying he knew ukraine was the real culprit because, quote, putin told me. That remarkable piece of reporting from the Washington Post mirroring some of what we learned in Public Comments from former trump adviser tom bossert and in a warning and testimony from former nsc official fiona hill. This is a fictional narrative that ha