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Putin pleads ignorance on Trump campaign meetings | TheHill

posted onJune 5, 2017
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Article snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin claims to have no knowledge of any 2016 meetings between members of his government and President Trump's campaign. During an interview on the debut episode of NBC's “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly,” Putin again insisted that claims of Moscow interfering in last year's election are false. “I haven’t seen, even once, any direct proof of Russian interference in the presidential election in the United States,” he said. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the Russian president ordered interference in the vote with the intention of helping to election Trump. Special counsel Robert Mueller has been appointed to probe the meddling and any possible coordination between Trump's team and the Kremlin.  “There were no meetings,” Putin said. “When I saw this my jaw dropped.” Multiple Trump aides, including Attorney General MORE and senior adviser Jared Kushner, are reported to have had meetings with Russian officials they failed to mention during Senate hearings or on security clearance forms. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was forced to resign after it was revealed he misled Vice President Pence about the content of his conversations with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. When pressed by Kelly if there were any meetings between Kislyak and the Trump campaign, Putin said, “I have no idea.” “I’m being completely honest with you. I don’t know. The routine job of an ambassador — do you think that from all over the world, or fro... Link to the full article to read more

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