Putin says US spies may have faked evidence of campaign hacking
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Donald Trump had run a more effective presidential campaign than Hillary Clinton and that U.S. intelligence agencies may have faked evidence of campaign hacking.
Putin, addressing an economic forum in St Petersburg, said U.S. allegations that Russia had hacked the Democratic Party to help Trump amounted to “harmful gossip.”
When it came to the alleged hacking, he said there were no “Russian fingerprints.”
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Putin also said that allegations there had been a secret deal between Moscow and Donald Trump before his inauguration as U.S. president were “hysteria.”
“There was nothing concrete, zero. It’s just hysteria. Should I give you a pill?” Putin told a moderator when asked about a possible deal between Trump and Moscow.
Putin, addressing the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, accused the United States of carrying out “crude and systematic interference in Russian affairs for many years”.
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