MOSCOW: A top Kremlin aide on Wednesday dismissed as ridiculous claims thatUS President Donald Trump has acted as an agent for Russia amid mountingcontroversy over his alleged ties to Moscow.
“Why comment on something stupid? How can the US president be an agent ofanother country?” President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy advisor YuriUshakov told a briefing after a journalist if Trump was a Russian agent.
Ushakov said Russia’s relations with the US were “at rock bottom” and“nothing has happened in the context of developing them.”
Trump himself said on Monday that he “never worked for Russia” and toldreporters: “It’s a disgrace that you even ask that question.”
The US president was responding to a report in The New York Times that saidthe FBI had opened an investigation into whether he was acting on Russia’sbehalf soon after he became president.
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In addition, The Washington Post reported on what it said were unusuallengths taken by Trump to hide details of his conversations with Putin.
The bombshell reports as came as special prosecutor Robert Mueller pressesa huge investigation into alleged Russian efforts to influence the 2016presidential election — and the possibility Moscow colluded with Trump’scampaign. – APP/AFP
