MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th July, 2021) Kremlin dismisses as "a great pulp fiction" reports that the Russian leadership were on a secret mission to throw support behind Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told The Guardian.
Earlier on Thursday, the newspaper reported, citing what it claims to be leaked Kremlin documents, that Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly personally approved a secret operation to support Trump in the election during a closed session of the Russian Security Council on January 22, 2016.
The papers at the disposal of the newspaper reportedly claim that the participants of the meeting agreed that the White House under Trump could help fulfill Moscow's strategic aims, including "social turmoil" in the United States and the weakening of the negotiating stance of the American leader.
Russian intelligence agencies were allegedly instructed to ensure Trump's victory, as he was considered by Kremlin to be the "most promising candidate," whose personality the alleged report assessed as "impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex." Kremlin purportedly had compromising data on Trump, in particular, about his "non-official visits to Russian Federation territory."
The newspaper outlined that Western intelligence agencies were aware of these alleged Kremlin documents and examined them.
Former President Trump joined the Kremlin in rejecting the allegations.
"This is disgusting. It's fake news, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA was fake news. It's just the Radical Left crazies doing whatever they can to demean everybody on the right. It's fiction, and nobody was tougher on Russia than me, including on the pipeline, and sanctions. At the same time, we got along with Russia. Russia respected us, China respected us, Iran respected us, North Korea respected us," Liz Harrington, a Trump spokeswoman, quoted him as saying.
Russia has repeatedly denied claims of its meddling in the 2016 presidential election in the United States.
According to a report on the Kremlin's website, on January 22, 2016, Putin did hold a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council, but they discussed socioeconomic domestic issues, Moldova, and the situation in international markets.
