Unic Press UK: In a series of tweets, the U.S. president Donald Trump has denounced the reports in a few media organization that his pre-election campaign organization cum some of his associates had contacts with Russian officials prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Trump claims that the U.S. intelligence agencies seem to be the sources of the information published by some news outfits to undermine his administration.
This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
Trump seems to contend that the U.S. intelligence agencies were the purveyors of information published by some ‘fake news’ outfits to ridicle his administration. It is obvious that Trump has yet to be done with scathing attacks on the media, especially those he had labeled “fake news”. He tweeted:
The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by "intelligence" like candy. Very un-American!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
On Wednesday, the 15th February 2017, the spokesman of Russian president [Vladimir Putin], Dmitry Peskov dismissed the reports by some media organization that some of the members of Trump’s campaign and other associates had contacts with Russian intelligence officials, prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, saying it was “not based on any facts.”… “Let’s not believe anonymous information,” Peskov added.
