MOSCOW: President Vladimir
Putin *****ed raunchy jokes on Tuesday as he poked fun at
claims that Russian secret services filmed US President-elect Donald
Trump with prostitutes.
Showing he is familiar with the
claims in the explosive dossier,
Putin launched into a ****** of ribald jokes about prostitutes, riffing on Trump’s former role as owner of the Miss Universe beauty contest.
The unsubstantiated dossier published by American media last week alleged
that Russia had gathered compromising information on Trump, namely videos involving prostitutes at a luxury Moscow hotel, supposedly as a potential means for blackmail.
In his first public comments on the claims,
Putin rubbished the idea
that Russian secret services would have
spied on
Trump during his 2013 visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe final, as alleged in the dossier.
“Trump when he came to Moscow... wasn’t any kind of political figure, we didn’t even k**w of his political ambitions,”
Putin said, responding to a journalist’s question at a news conference.
“Does anyone think
that our special services chase every American billionaire? Of course **t, it’s just completely ridiculous.”
Putin also questioned why
Trump would feel the need to hire prostitutes, given his opportunities to meet beautiful women at the Miss Universe contest.
“He’s a grown-up for a start and secondly a man who spent his whole life organising beauty contests and meeting the most beautiful women in the world,”
Putin said.
“I can hardly imagine
that he ran off to a hotel to meet our girls of ‘lowered social responsibility’,” said Putin, adding jokingly “although they are of course the best in the world.
“I doubt
Trump fell for that.”
Putin went on to compare those behind the dossier unfavourably with prostitutes.
“The people who order falsifications of the kind
that are **w circulating against the US president-elect -- they are worse than prostitutes, they don’t have any moral limits at all.”
The fact
that such methods are being used against the US president-elect is a unique case: **thing like this has happened before. “This shows a significant level of degradation of the political elite in the West.”
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