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Putin Says Idea Russia Has Compromising Material on Trump is 'Nonsense'

 

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday scoffed at a suggestion that Moscow had any compromising material on Donald Trump, following talks with the U.S. leader.
 
"It's hard to imagine greater nonsense," Putin told a news conference alongside the U.S. president after several hours of talks during the two leaders' first summit. 
 
"Please get this rubbish out of your heads," Putin added.
 
Trump's critics at home have repeatedly accused the U.S. president of cosying up to Putin, suggesting the Russian leader may have some compromising material on him.
 
"When Mr Trump would come to Moscow as a businessman, I did not even know he was in Moscow," Putin told the news conference.
 
"More than 500 U.S. businessmen -- of the highest rank -- came for the Saint Petersburg economic forum," Putin said, referring to an annual economic forum in Russia's second city. "I don't even remember their last names," he said, denying that Russia spied on them.
 
"What are you thinking? That we are organizing operational work over each of them and collecting some sort of compromising material?"
 
The billionaire businessman visited Russia several times before he was elected U.S. president in 2016.
 
Trump for his part blamed bad relations between Moscow and Washington on the U.S. investigation into alleged Russian election meddling.
 
Both the U.S. and Kremlin leaders have furiously denied Trump's campaign colluded with Russia.
 
 

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