He called the claims published by United States media outlet BuzzFeed and attributed to a former British intelligence operative a “total fake” and “an obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations”.
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It was a strong warm-up, and Trump then took the stage to completely deny the charges, and repeated the denials in response to numerous questions.
McCain revoked his endorsement of Trump in October after reports that Trump had made lewd comments about women.
The official said investigators so far have been unable to confirm the material about Trump financial and personal entanglements with Russian businessmen and others whom USA intelligence analysts have concluded are Russian intelligence officers or working on behalf of Russian intelligence.
CNN had reported that President-elect Trump’s last security briefing had included a two-page summary of a 35 page dossier making unverified claims that Russian Federation had compromising financial and personal information on Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump raged against his political opponents and the intelligence community in an early-morning tweetstorm Friday. “He said it was “total garbage” and I’m keeping it clean”, Priebus said.
President-elect Donald Trump’s week was supposed to be filled with cabinet confirmation hearings and his first press conference since winning the election in November.
But we stand in defense of CNN, which did not publish the report, but was the first to run a story describing the contents, minus the horrifying details.
Trump acknowledged Wednesday, for the first time, that he believed Russian Federation was responsible for the hacking.
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has promised a new report on hacking, and denounced a dossier on his alleged ties to Russian Federation as “made up facts by sleazebag political operatives”.
The officer said intelligence officials from various countries were privy to other reports, some compiled by intelligence officers, which detailed prior ties Trump might have to Russian Federation, as well as various global business interests held by the Trump family.
After the dossier was published, Steele disappeared, reports the New York Times. Trump said the report never should have been released and thanked news organizations that showed restraint.
However, Trump admitted the hacking of US Presidential elections.
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During a presser today, Trump called intelligence officials “disgraceful” for allowing information that is “false and fake” to be released to journalists.
