Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to acknowledge that he’d maintained a relationship with Russia during the 2016 campaign but downplayed his business dealings with the country as insignificant. “The stuff you’re talking about is peanut stuff,” the president said his campaign’s connections to the Kremlin in an Oval Office interview with Reuters.

The predictably odd dismissal came after special counsel Robert Mueller alleged in a bombshell sentencing memo for Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer and fixer, that Trump—er, “Individual 1”—had been negotiating a potential Trump property in Moscow during his campaign for president. The interview also came just after New York prosecutors said Trump directed Cohen to pay off women who allegedly had affairs with Trump, in what amounted to campaign finance violations.

The one-two punch from investigators has raised the specter of Trump’s impeachment and possibly even indictment. But Trump claimed in the interview Tuesday that he isn’t concerned about being impeached, telling Reuters that “the people would revolt if that happened.” Moreover, he added, “It’s hard to impeach somebody who hasn’t done anything wrong and who’s created the greatest economy in the history of our country.”

Of course, “peanut stuff” is something of a departure from Trump’s initial all-caps claim that he had “NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA—NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” His story regarding Cohen’s payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal has undergone a similar transformation. Initially, he claimed to know nothing about either transaction. In Tuesday’s interview, however, he defended the payments and shifted the blame.

“It wasn’t a campaign contribution,” Trump claimed. “If it were, it’s only civil, and even if it’s only civil, there was no violation based on what we did. O.K.?” When asked if he’d discussed campaign-finance laws with Cohen, he replied, “Michael Cohen is a lawyer. I assume he would know what he’s doing.”