Kremlin says claims Putin ordered campaign to put Trump in power are fundamentally untrue after supposed expose in The Guardian
Moscow has reacted furiously to a series of claims, backed up with anonymous and unverifiable sources, that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his security officials to support Donald Trumpâs campaign to become US president.
In comments made exclusively to RT on Thursday evening, Putinâs spokesman slammed the report, published in the UKâs Guardian newspaper earlier that day. âThis is total fiction,â Dmitry Peskov remarked. âStrictly speaking, it is complete nonsense. Of course, this is the hallmark of an absolutely low-quality publication. Either the newspaper is trying to somehow increase its popularity or is sticking to a rabidly Russophobic line.â
The article, authored by British journalist Luke Harding and two other staffers at the outlet, claimed that Putin had âPersonally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a âmentally unstableâ Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election, during a closed session of Russiaâs national security council.â The bombshell revelations were purportedly based on âwhat are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents.â
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While working in Moscow in 2007, Harding was accused of plagiarism by The Exile, a small, independent and now defunct magazine. His employer issued an apology at the time.
According to Thursdayâs report, top Kremlin officials agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscowâs strategic objectives, among them encouraging âsocial turmoilâ in the US and âa weakening of the American presidentâs negotiating position.â This is despite the frequently fractious state of relations between the two nations and the imposition of sanctions during the Republicans time in office.
âCertainly, all of this does not correspond and cannot possibly be based on the truth. It is fundamentally not true,â Peskov said. âThis is either part of an ongoing attempt to demonize Russia and Putin, which The Guardian loves to do from time to time, or it is a desperate attempt to attract some new readers by publishing such tales.â
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Trumpâs presidency was plagued by a series of âRussiagateâ allegations, with opponents frequently insisting that he was aligned with the Kremlin, or even that heâs a Russian âsleeper agent.â Despite the claims, no clear evidence of undue influence was ever presented, linking him to Moscow, and numerous investigations came up short.
In May, one of Russiaâs top diplomats told RT that relations with Washington had actually thawed since Trump left office at the beginning of the year, because of a return to predictability. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said âwe know that a lot of figures in the current administration are indeed professionals with big diplomatic experience... Sometimes we lacked this with the Trump administration, some figures there were a little bit eccentric or too political and it was very difficult to understand what they were really after,â Polyanskiy explained.
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