EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s fiction’: Trump tears into ‘disgusting, fake news’ report from left-wing UK newspaper The Guardian that Putin had ‘kompromat’ on him and backed him to win election because he was ‘mentally unstable’ and would create ‘social turmoil’ in US
- Putin ordered his intelligence services to help Trump in 2016, documents The Guardian claim are from The Kremlin
- He allegedly held a meeting with spy chiefs in January 2016 to discuss the plans
- Documents, obtained by The Guardian, suggest the Kremlin has compromising material on Trump from his visits to Moscow before he became president
- Former President Trump told DailyMail.com the report was ‘disgusting’ and called it ‘fake news’
- Kremlin thought Trump win would cause ‘destabilization’ of US political system
- Guardian doesn’t say where the documents came from or how they have been authenticated and The Kremlin has rejected their authenticity
- In January 2016, Trump was one of 12 candidates fighting to be GOP nominee
- Putin spokesman calls it ‘pulp fiction’
Vladimir Putin personally ordered a top secret spy operation to help a ‘mentally unstable’ Donald Trump win the 2016 election, according to documents the left-leaning Guardian newspaper says were leaked from the Kremlin – in a report President Trump calls ‘disgusting fiction.’
The Russian strongman held a meeting with his spy chiefs and senior ministers in January 2016 where they agreed to support Trump – who was then fighting to be the Republican nominee – in order to achieve Moscow’s objectives of sowing ‘social turmoil’ in the US and weakening the American presidency, the papers suggest.
Asked for comment, former President Donald Trump tore into the report in comments to DailyMail.com by spokeswoman Liz Harrington.
‘This is disgusting. It’s fake news, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA was fake news. It’s just the Radical Left crazies doing whatever they can to demean everybody on the right,’ the former president said.
Trump then defended his own record on Russia, and touted sanctions his administration slapped on Moscow. ‘It’s fiction, and nobody was tougher on Russia than me, including on the [Nord Stream 2] pipeline, and the sanctions. At the same time we got along with Russia. Russia respected us, China respected us, Iran respected us, North Korea respected us.’
‘And the world was a much safer place than it is now with mentally unstable leadership,’ he said, ripping a term from the purported Kremlin documents and using it on his successor.
A decree bearing Putin’s signature ordered Russia‘s three agencies to find practical ways to support the then-Republican frontrunner, according to The Guardian who have seen the documents, recommending the use ‘all possible force’ to ensure that Trump became the 45th president of the United States.
Helping him secure victory ‘will definitely lead to the destabilization of the US’s sociopolitical system’, the report predicts.
The British newspaper doesn’t say where the documents came from or how they have been authenticated. The Kremlin has rejected their authenticity and Putin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskov dismissed the story as ‘great pulp fiction’ and ‘utter nonsense’.
He told RT it was ‘a continuation of an absolutely poor-quality publication.
‘The newspaper is either trying to somehow increase its popularity, or carries on with its rabid Russophobic line.’
He said of The Guardian report: ‘This has nothing, and cannot have anything, to do with the truth. This is in fact not true.
‘This is a continuation of exercises in total demonisation of Russia and Putin, which The Guardian sometimes likes to do. Or else this is a desperate attempt to attract some new readers by publishing such fables.’
The Guardian showed the purportedly leaked documents from the January 22 meeting to Western spy agencies who carefully examined them and believe them to be genuine. Independent experts say the tone of the papers is consistent with the Kremlin’s style.