Russian president Vladimir Putin has accused the ongoing Obama administration of spreading fake allegations towards President-elect Donald Trump.
Speaking at a news conference described as a dossier on Trump, Mr Putin accused the Obama administration by undermining the legitimacy of Donal Trump, despite his victory.
Asked about a dossier alleging Mr Trump's sexual activities at a Moscow hotel, Mr Putin dismissed it as "fake" and said that the people who ordered it are "worse than prostitutes".
Russia has been accused of interfering with the US election, including by attempting to tamper with voter registration rolls, by hacking Democratic National Committee emails, and by hacking the emails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. In recent days, secret intelligence community assessments have been leaked to the media, concluding that Russia sought to tip the election in favor of Trump. The assessments do not go so far as to say that Russian intervention was decisive to Trump’s victory, as far as is publicly known.
On 8 October, the US government formally accused Russia of hacking the Democratic party’s computer networks and said that Moscow was attempting to “interfere” with the US presidential election. On 9 December, Barack Obama ordered US intelligence to review evidence of Russian interference in the election. A day later, the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, accused the FBI of covering up information about Russia, seeking to tip the election in Trump’s favor. On 10 December, the Washington Post reported that a secret CIA assessment had found that Russian operatives covertly interfered in the election in an attempt to ensure the Republican candidate’s victory. A separate report in the New York Times said intelligence officials had a “high confidence” that Russia was involved in hacking related to the election.
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