Putin denies Democrat charges that he has negative information on Trump and also denies the validity of the Steele dossier

Washington Times:
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Monday that the infamous anti-Trump dossier was fake and insisted that Moscow doesn’t have damaging information about President Trump.

The former KGB spy chief chuckled when an American journalist asked him directly at a televised press conference whether Russia compiled dirt on Mr. Trump or his family before the 2016 presidential election.

“I was an intelligence officer myself, and I know how dossiers are made up,” Mr. Putin said dismissively, standing next to Mr. Trump after their summit in Helsinki.
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“I did hear these rumors that we allegedly collected compromising material on Mr. Trump when he was visiting Moscow,” the Russian president told a reporter. “Well, distinguished colleague, let me tell you this: When President Trump was at Moscow back then, I didn’t even know that he was in Moscow. I treat President Trump with utmost respect, but back then when he was a private individual, a businessman, nobody informed me that he was in Moscow.”

He said Russia’s legendary intelligence operatives can’t possibly keep track of every American businessman visiting the country. Mr. Putin pointed to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum as an example.

“There were over 500 American businessmen, high-ranking, high-level ones,” the Russian leader said. “I don’t even remember the last names of each and every one of them. Do you think that we try to collect compromising material on each and every single one of them? It’s difficult to imagine an utter nonsense of a bigger scale than this.”

Mr. Putin advised the audience, “Please just disregard these issues and don’t think about this anymore again.”

In Washington, Democrats weren’t taking Mr. Putin’s advice. Some top lawmakers said Mr. Trump’s unwillingness to blame Russia for election meddling only confirmed their suspicions that Moscow has compromising information on the president.
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The allegations in the dossier have never been substantiated.  It appears to be a made up hodgepodge dressed up to look like an intelligence report [aid for by the Clinton campaign and the Fusion GPS smear machine.   Despite a complete lack of truth and an absolute denial the Democrats still bitterly cling to something that is untrue.

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