Putin And Trump Attended The Same Meeting, But Reported Different Conversations
Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, told reporters that Trump accepted Putin's statement that Russia didn't interfere in the election, according to tweets from the New York Times Moscow bureau chief Neil MacFarquhar.
According to Lavrov, Trump said that "he heard the clear statements of President Putin about this being untrue, that the Russian leadership did not interfere in the election and that he accepts these statements."
"President Trump said that this campaign has already taken on a rather strange character because over the many months that these accusations have been made, not a single fact has been presented," Lavrov said, according to MacFarquhar.
Lavrov also said that Trump told Putin that some circles in the US were "exaggerating" claims of Russian interference, according to the BBC's Moscow reporter.
So, for those keeping track at home, Russia says that Trump accepted Putin didn't interfere in the election, but Tillerson said there was "intractable disagreement."
Immediately, a White House official told NBC that Lavrov's claim was "not accurate".