{"id":372798,"date":"2017-11-11T16:15:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=372798"},"modified":"2017-11-11T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:16:30","slug":"putin-insulted-by-meddling-claim-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/putin-insulted-by-meddling-claim-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin insulted by meddling claim – Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Vladimir Putin feels insulted by allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US election, Donald Trump has said after meeting him briefly at an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam.<\/p>\n
“You can only ask so many times… he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election,” the US president said.<\/p>\n
Mr Putin later dismissed the allegations as “political infighting”.<\/p>\n
The US intelligence community has already concluded that Russia tried to sway the poll in favour of Mr Trump.<\/p>\n
The US justice department has appointed special investigator Robert Mueller to examine any possible collusion involving Mr Trump’s team, and legal action has already been taken against several former aides<\/p>\n
What are the allegations against Russia?<\/strong><\/p>\n President Trump has refused to acknowledge\u00a0a reported assessment by the CIA and other intelligence agencies that Russia was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the run-up to last year’s presidential election.<\/p>\n