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‘Russia possessing damaging details on Trump’: Putin says report hoax

‘Russia possessing damaging details on Trump’: Putin says report hoax

January 17, 2017 | 05:31 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference after a meeting with his Moldovan counterpart Igor Dodon at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday an unsubstantiated report that alleged Russia had gathered compromising material on US President-elect Donald Trump was a hoax.

Putin, who reiterated he had never met Trump, said he hoped that Moscow and Washington could eventually get their troubled relations back to normal.

January 17, 2017 | 05:31 PM