- Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire "went there" yesterday. He asked, "Does the Russian government have any compromising material on President Trump or his family?"
- Putin did not immediately say no. He gave a lengthy answer and then added, "it’s difficult to imagine utter nonsense on a bigger scale than this."
- Whether that is a denial is open to interpretation.
- Even the video existed, Putin would never admit it.
In their wild press conference yesterday, perhaps the most uncomfortable moment came when Russian president Vladimir Putin was asked whether he had "compromising material" on US President Donald Trump. That's a reference to the infamous, unproven existence of a years-old video of Trump with two prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.
The gossipy allegation — vehemently denied by Trump — first emerged in the Steele dossier, a document listing everything that former MI6 agent Christopher Steele heard from his intelligence sources about the Trump campaign's connections to Russia in 2016. Russian security services are notorious for gathering compromising information on potential targets.
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