"I'm not concerned about election interference because the US does the same in other countries."
On May 10, 2017 — the day after firing FBI Director Comey — Trump met in the Oval Office with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak. The White House excluded the entire American press pool. A Russian state TASS photographer was allowed in. Trump revealed highly classified Israeli intelligence about an ISIS plot. That story broke five days later. What was not reported: Trump also told the Russian officials he was unconcerned about Moscow's election interference because 'the United States does the same thing in other countries.' A memo summarizing those remarks was deliberately restricted to prevent public disclosure.
The classified Intel disclosure ran hard. That story crowded out everything else. The suppressed memo about Trump's election interference comment — which directly contradicted the stated premise of the Mueller investigation — was reported once, briefly, buried in a follow-up piece two years later, and never pursued.
Trump told Russia's top diplomat that he saw American and Russian election interference as equivalent. That is an admission about American foreign policy no administration had made publicly — and the press was structurally unable to process it because it contradicted the narrative frame they were already operating inside.