In a June 2019 interview with ABC News’ Stephanopoulos, Trump said that he would accept information from foreign governments without reporting it to authorities.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Somebody comes up and says, ‘hey, I have information on your opponent,’ do you call the FBI?”

 

TRUMP: Okay, let’s put yourself in a position: you’re a congressman, somebody comes up and says, “Hey I have information on your opponent.” Do you call the FBI?

 

STEPHANOPOULOS: (inaudible) if it’s coming from Russia you do.

 

TRUMP: I’ll tell you what: I’ve seen a lot of things over my life. I don’t think in my whole life I’ve ever called the FBI. In my whole life. You don’t call the FBI. You throw somebody out of your office, you do whatever you–

 

STEPHANOPOULOS: Al Gore got a stolen briefing book. He called the FBI.

 

TRUMP: Well, that’s different. A stolen briefing book. This isn’t a (inaudible). This is somebody who said “We have information on your opponent.” Oh, let me call the FBI. Give me a break, life doesn’t work that way.

 

STEPHANOPOULOS: The FBI Director says that’s what should happen.

 

TRUMP: The FBI Director is wrong. Because, frankly, it doesn’t happen like that in life…

Trump also took the “extremely strong and powerful” word of Putin over his own intelligence agencies about whether Russia worked to get him elected in 2016, and again dismissed their intelligence about Russia’s assistance in 2020.

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