{"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<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","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 at his annual press conference Thursday. \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 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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}]}}