President of the United States Donald Trump believes that his victory in the election in 2016 was a mistake. He wrote about this in his Twitter. Against the backdrop of proceedings involving alleged violations committed during the election campaign, he said that in many states the democrats simply "forgot" about the struggle for the presidency. "The only thing I made a mistake was that I won the election, which was expected to win the swindling Hillary Clinton and the Democrats," - said the American leader. In his opinion, "the problem is that they forgot to conduct a campaign in a number of states!" Discussion of Trump's victory in the elections again flared up in the US after former lawyer of President Michael Cohen went on a deal with the investigation and said that at Trump's direction paid two of his friends for a silence, writes RIA Novosti news agency.. The human rights activist did not specify who is talking about, but previously the media discussed the relationship of the politician with the star of "adult films" Stormy Daniels and the former Playboy model Karen McDougall, who accused Trump of adultery.

Vladimir Vasilyev, chief researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explained that Trump's statement about the "mistake" was provoked by his desire to mitigate the consequences of pardoning Paul Manafort. He believes that the decision to pardon a lawyer "may have far-reaching political consequences". "Therefore, for today, a situation such as" I did not want to be president, but the people elected me, "was launched," the scientist said, the National News Service.