Trump tries to walk back his tweet that Russia helped him get elected, but the internet doesn't forget

Donald Trump should really know by now that the internet never forgets.

And yet on Thursday morning the president went on a Twitter rant in which he seemed to admit that, yes, Russia did in fact help him get elected. Oops.

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The tweetstorm came in response to Robert Mueller's statement on Wednesday in which he again highlighted the Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected" is an incredibly loaded one given that despite intelligence reports to the contrary, Trump has never fully accepted the findings that Russia interfered with the 2016 elections. He even went so far as to publicly praise Russian president Vladimir Putin while slamming those intelligence reports at a 2018 press conference alongside Putin.

The reaction to Trump's statement was enough that he had to turn around immediately and walk back his own statement during a press gaggle as he departed the White House on his way to deliver the commencement speech at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Showing his trademark bravado, Trump declared, "Russia did not help me get elected. You know who got me elected? I got me elected."

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But this is the internet and no matter what Trump says, the internet is very unlikely to forget this big a slip up.

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If history has taught us anything, it's that Trump will now work twice as hard, particularly on Twitter, to back off his original statement. But the internet won't let him live it down any time soon.