{"id":319399,"date":"2017-07-29T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-never-wanted-me-to-be-president-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:59:36","slug":"russia-never-wanted-me-to-be-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-never-wanted-me-to-be-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia never wanted me to be president: Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has rejected claims that Russia meddled in the 2016 American election on his behalf, arguing Russia never wanted him to be president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the remarks in series of tweets on Saturday while commenting on a news report about a firm behind a controversial dossier filled with scandalous allegations about the president. The firm, Fusion GPS, \u201calso worked for Russia,\u201d according to the story Trump re-tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, Russia was against Trump in the 2016 election &#8211; and why not, I want strong military &amp; low oil prices,\u201d Trump commented. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has previously said Russia would have preferred a weak American leader, like his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitch hunt!\u201d Trump continued, denouncing the federal probe into possible ties between his campaign and Moscow before or after the November 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>The dossier Trump was commenting on is filled with unsubstantiated claims about him supposedly based&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/29\/530059\/Russia-never-wanted-me-to-be-president-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has rejected claims that Russia meddled in the 2016 American election on his behalf, arguing Russia never wanted him to be president. Trump made the remarks in series of tweets on Saturday while commenting on a news report about a firm behind a controversial dossier filled with scandalous allegations about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}