{"id":339460,"date":"2017-12-14T18:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/claims-of-russian-meddling-espionage-mania\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:53:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:53:49","slug":"claims-of-russian-meddling-espionage-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/claims-of-russian-meddling-espionage-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims of Russian meddling &#8216;espionage mania&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>President Vladimir Putin has renewed Russia&#8217;s rejection of accusations of interference in last year&#8217;s presidential election in the US, saying the claims\u00a0were nothing more than &#8220;espionage mania&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s associates have been accused of colluding with Russian operatives during the 2016 US presidential campaign and transition &#8212; a claim the US president fiercely denies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All this was made up by people who are opposed to Trump,\u201d Putin said at his annual press conference on Thursday in response to a question about allegations of Russian meddling.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the allegations were\u00a0nothing more than mere \u201cmadness\u201d and &#8220;espionage mania&#8221;, adding they were \u201cdreamed up&#8221; by Trump&#8217;s &#8220;delirious&#8221; opponents in an effort to discredit the US president.<\/p>\n<p>Such allegations are not only odd and disrespectful to US voters, but also counter-productive in solving the two countries&#8217; common issues, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find this very odd, frankly speaking. It&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/14\/545620\/Russia-US-Putin-Trump-Interference\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin has renewed Russia&#8217;s rejection of accusations of interference in last year&#8217;s presidential election in the US, saying the claims\u00a0were nothing more than &#8220;espionage mania&#8221;. Donald Trump\u2019s associates have been accused of colluding with Russian operatives during the 2016 US presidential campaign and transition &#8212; a claim the US president fiercely denies. &#8220;All [&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-339460","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\/339460","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=339460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}