Trump: It’s not my fault if Republicans punished in US mid-term elections

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>US president Donald Trump has said he will not accept the blame if his party loses control of the US House of Representatives in November&comma; arguing that his campaigning and endorsements have helped Republican candidates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Three weeks before election day in the US mid-term polls&comma; Mr Trump told The Associated Press he senses voter enthusiasm rivalling that which propelled him to the White House in 2016&comma; and expressed cautious optimism that his most loyal supporters will vote&comma; even when he is not on the ballot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He dismissed suggestions that he might take responsibility&comma; as his predecessor Barack Obama did&comma; for mid-term losses&comma; or view the outcome as a referendum on his presidency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anybody entering the United States illegally will be arrested and detained&comma; prior to being sent back to their country&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Donald J&period; Trump &lpar;&commat;realDonaldTrump&rpar; October 17&comma; 2018<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No&comma; I think I’m helping people&comma;” Mr Trump said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t believe anybody’s ever had this kind of an impact&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump spoke on a range of subjects&comma; defending Saudi Arabia from growing condemnation over the case of a missing journalist&comma; accusing his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen of lying under oath&comma; and showing defiance when asked about the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Horseface” insult he hurled at Stormy Daniels&comma; the porn actress who accuses him of lying about an affair&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Asked if it was appropriate to insult a woman’s appearance&comma; Mr Trump responded&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You can take it any way you want&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Throughout much of the nearly 40-minute interview&comma; he sat&comma; arms crossed&comma; in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk&comma; flanked by top aides including White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and communications director Bill Shine&period; White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway listened from a nearby sofa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;40694C84-F511-473F-875D-B83A015B9F74&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;40694C84-F511-473F-875D-B83A015B9F74&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119174" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The interview came as Mr Trump’s administration is being urged to pressure Saudi Arabia to account for the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump offered a defence for the US ally&comma; warning against a rush to judgment&comma; similar to what he said happened with his US supreme court nominee&comma; Brett Kavanaugh&comma; who was accused of sexual assault&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Well&comma; I think we have to find out what happened first&comma;” Mr Trump said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Here we go again with&comma; you know&comma; you’re guilty until proven innocent&period; I don’t like that&period; We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh&period; And he was innocent all the way&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Weeks away from the mid-term elections&comma; Democrats are hopeful about their chances to recapture the House&comma; while Republicans are increasingly confident they can retain control of the US senate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump has been campaigning aggressively in rallies aimed at invigorating his support base&period; He said he believes he is doing his job&comma; but acknowledged that some of his supporters say they may not vote this November&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m not running&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I mean&comma; there are many people that have said to me … &OpenCurlyQuote;I will never ever go and vote in the mid-terms because you’re not running and I don’t think you like congress&period;&&num;8217&semi;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Well&comma; I do like congress&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If Democrats take the House and pursue impeachment or investigations — including seeking his long-hidden tax returns — Mr Trump said he will &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;handle it very well”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president declared he was unconcerned about other potential threats to his presidency&period; He accused Mr Cohen of lying when testifying under oath that the president coordinated on a hush-money scheme to buy Ms Daniels’ silence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Elizabeth Warren is being hammered&comma; even by the Left&period; Her false claim of Indian heritage is only selling to VERY LOW I&period;Q&period; individuals&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;— Donald J&period; Trump &lpar;&commat;realDonaldTrump&rpar; October 17&comma; 2018<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump declared the allegation &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;totally false”&period; But in entering a plea deal with Mr Cohen in August&comma; federal prosecutors signalled that they accepted his recitation of facts and account of what occurred&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US president said Washington lawyer Pat Cipollone will serve as his next White House counsel and that he hoped to announce a replacement for UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in the next week or two&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He again repeated his frustration with US Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the special counsel investigation&comma; saying&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I could fire him whenever I want to fire him&comma; but I haven’t said that I was going to&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the ongoing Russian collusion investigation&comma; Mr Trump defended his son Donald Trump Jr over a Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer offering damaging information about Democrat Hillary Clinton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;119175" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-119175" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;04B6458E-33BB-4CE7-A663-8CB2BCDFA6AE&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;04B6458E-33BB-4CE7-A663-8CB2BCDFA6AE&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-119175" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-119175" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Mr Trump was bullish about the Republican party’s chances of success in the mid-term polls<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump called his son a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;good young guy” and said he did what any political aide would have done&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The US president again cast doubt on climate change&comma; suggesting&comma; incorrectly&comma; that the scientific community was evenly split on the existence of climate change and its causes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;scientists on both sides of the issue&comma;” Mr Trump insisted&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But what I’m not willing to do is sacrifice the economic well-being of our country for something that nobody really knows&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have a natural instinct for science&comma; and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture&period;” Repeatedly stressing what he saw as the achievements of his first two years&comma; Mr Trump said he would be seeking another term because there was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;always more work to do”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The new motto is Keep America Great&comma;” the US president said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t want somebody to destroy it because I can do a great job&comma; but the wrong person coming in after me sitting right at this desk can destroy it very quickly if they don’t do the right thing&period; So no&comma; I’m definitely running&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed319a268be">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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