Article snippet: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — MORE’s indictment of more than a dozen Russians accused of interfering in the 2016 election. In a series of tweets, Trump said news outlets have not highlighted the ways he believes the charges exonerate his campaign from colluding with Moscow’s election-meddling efforts. “Funny how the Fake News Media doesn’t want to say that the Russian group was formed in 2014, long before my run for President. Maybe they knew I was going to run even though I didn’t know!” the president tweeted. Trump has repeatedly seized on the charge, included in Mueller’s indictments released Friday, that the Russian efforts began well before the business mogul entered the presidential race. There were signs, however, that Trump was exploring a run as early as 2014. The president on Saturday also cited a New York Post column that called the indictment “a big win” for Trump, Deputy Attorney General MORE” — something Trump has repeatedly refused to acknowledge. White House aides have gone to great lengths to back up the president’s efforts to downplay Russia’s election interference. "There are two groups that have created chaos more than the Russians and that’s the Democrats and the mainstream media,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Saturday on Fox News, a comment that drew widespread backlash on social media. Trump unleashed his Twitter barrage on a sunny day in South Florida, where he is spending the holiday weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. ... Link to the full article to read more