Putin Says He Doesn’t Believe Trump Met Prostitutes in Russia

  • Attacks on Trump seek to undermine election result, Putin says
  • Unsubstantiated claims are ‘obvious fabrications,’ Putin says

Vladimir Putin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn’t believe that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump met with prostitutes in Russia, calling the accusations part of a campaign to undermine the election result.

Unsubstantiated allegations made against Trump are “obvious fabrications,” Putin told reporters in the Kremlin on Tuesday. “People who order fakes of the type now circulating against the U.S. president-elect, who concoct them and use them in a political battle, are worse than prostitutes because they don’t have any moral boundaries at all,” he said.