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Beware the double negative

• It was, according to President Trump, a “would” that should have been a “wouldn’t.”

Facing a barrage of criticism from both parties over his comments during a news conference with President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Trump said on Tuesday that he had misspoken about whether Russia had tried to influence the 2016 election.

Asked in Finland whether he believed Mr. Putin over American intelligence agencies, Mr. Trump had said: “He just said it’s not Russia. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be.”

On Tuesday, he backtracked: “The sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia,’ sort of a double negative. So you can put that in and I think that probably clarifies things pretty good.” (Read a transcript of his remarks.)