Trump backed off Putin because 'What do you do? End up in a fistfight?'

Trump reiterated his denial that his campaign colluded with Russians, calling it a media witch hunt

President Trump said on Wednesday that he had confronted President Vladimir V Putin twice about whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and changed the subject after Putin flatly denied it because, “What do you do? End up in a fistfight?”

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he flew to Paris to take part in Bastille Day celebrations, Trump offered his first extended account of a dramatic closed-door meeting he held with Putin last week in Hamburg, Germany.

“I said to him, ‘Were you involved in the meddling with the election?’” Trump recalled. “He said, ‘Absolutely not. I was