{"id":13656,"date":"2017-12-15T12:27:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T12:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=13656"},"modified":"2017-12-15T12:27:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T12:27:33","slug":"putin-says-trump-opponents-made-up-russia-vote-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/putin-says-trump-opponents-made-up-russia-vote-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin says Trump opponents \u2018made up\u2019 Russia vote interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of Donald Trump made up allegations of Russian interference in last year\u2019s US elections to discredit him, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at his annual press conference Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this was made up by people who are opposed to Trump so as to delegitimise his work,\u201d the president said in response to a question about allegations of Russian influence.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said representatives of the Russian government had met with Trump\u2019s team but said this was normal diplomatic practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ambassador was accused of meeting with someone, but this is normal practice worldwide,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is so transgressive in this case and why should it take on this spy-thriller tone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin said he hoped relations between the two countries would improve but suggested it would not be possible in the current US political climate.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to assess Trump\u2019s work so far as president, Putin said it was up to US voters rather than him to judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of Donald Trump made up allegations of Russian interference in last year\u2019s US elections to discredit him, Russian President Vladimir Putin said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}