Putin ridicules dossier on Trump as fake

Vladimir Putin believes the very notion of Donald Trump liaising with prostitutes in Russia is laughable.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin Source: Sputnik

Russian President Vladimir Putin has mocked claims that US-President elect Donald Trump would have had relations with Russian prostitutes.

Putin backed Trump's assertions that the dossier into Trump was 'fake news' and was simply a ploy to discredit him.

"Trump arrived and straight away rushed to meet with Moscow prostitutes. This is an adult man and, apart from that, is a man who for many years took part in organising beauty contests," Putin said.

"He has socialised with the most beautiful women in the world.

"I find it difficult to believe that he ran to a hotel to meet with our girls of reduced social responsibility."

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Trump, who will be inaugurated as US president on Friday, has dismissed reports that Russia had compromising information on him as "fake news" and "phoney stuff."

The information was summarised in a US intelligence report presented to Trump and President Barack Obama this month.

James Clapper, director of national intelligence, has said the dossier was not produced by US intelligence agencies and they have not judged whether the information is reliable.

Putin said it was "total nonsense" that Russian intelligence had followed Trump to gather compromising material on him and reiterated that he had never met Trump.

"Trump, when he came to Moscow, and I can't even remember when that was, ... he wasn't any sort of political figure. We didn't even know about his political ambitions," Putin said.

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