Which is the part that isn't news. Meanwhile we're being offered some kind of nonsense theory implying Russian collusion.

Ah, there it is.

There what is? That Trump contradicts himself, a thing that was never in dispute?

This is kind of the point. Trump is such a polarizing jackass that people default to attacking him even in cases when there is nothing there, and then end up eroding their own credibility by making too many accusations they can't actually substantiate instead of sticking to the ones they can.

You don't have to reflexively defend claims so silly that you can only try to escape by moving the goalposts.