Donald Trump Denies That Russia Has Information About Him

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

President-elect Donald Trump categorically rejected as "false news" the allegations contained in an explosive report that Russia has compromising information from the magnate of a personal nature with which he could blackmail him.

"It is false news, lies, it did not happen," the next US president vehemently asserted in his first press conference since his unexpected electoral victory last November.

Although the reason for the meeting with the press was to present his plans to avoid conflicts of interest between his businesses and his new position, the first minutes of his speech were devoted to refuting the controversial content of the 35-page report revealed on Tuesday.

According to The New York Times, the document was produced by a former British intelligence agent on behalf of Trump's political rivals during the Republican primaries.

On its pages it would state, among other things, that the Kremlin has embarrassing videos of the magnate's conduct during a trip to Russia, such as an alleged party with prostitutes at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, the BBC noted.

It would also include evidence that the Republican businessman's campaign colluded with the Russian secret services to benefit his presidential bid.

According to the Times and other media, intelligence agencies shared the content of that report with President Barack Obama and Trump himself to warn them that it was circulating and that they were investigating it. So far the allegations have not been substantiated.

Trump, who has had a hectic love life, assured that this document "should never have been written and should never have been disseminated", since "sick people" wrote that "crap."

"It is a shame," the president-elect reiterated at a press conference held at the Trump Tower in New York a few days after he took office in Washington and became the new tenant of the White House.

In his statements, he particularly attacked, without mentioning it, the Buzzfeed website - which fully revealed the content of the document - and refused to give a turn to ask a CNN journalist unhappy about the network's coverage in this matter.

Another object of his anger was the intelligence agencies, which he has been very critical of, and speculated if they were the ones that released the report. "This is something that would have been done in Nazi Germany," he said.

Suspicions about his relationship with the Russian government have haunted Trump since the beginning of his campaign, when he expressed his admiration for President Vladimir Putin and bet on improving bilateral relations.

They were followed by the leak of pirated documents from the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign for which the US intelligence services have blamed hackers for the Russian services.