There's a pattern that Donald Trump has followed many times when accused of wrongdoing. First, deny it. Then, when irrefutable proof emerges that you did it and your denials were lies, insist that there was nothing wrong with it in the first place. That's how he handled the story of his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, the fact that he was pursuing a deal to build a tower in Moscow while running for president ("There would have been nothing wrong if I did do it"), and his campaign's attempt to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton from a group of Russians ("totally legal and done all the time in politics").
Paul Waldman: Republicans show they’ll defend just about anything Trump does
