PUTIN SAYS OBAMA IS TARGETING TRUMP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
8:39 a.m.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the Obama administration of trying to undermine President-elect Donald Trump by spreading fake allegations.
Putin, speaking at a news conference in Moscow Tuesday, described a dossier on Trump as part of efforts by the Obama administration to “undermine the legitimacy of the president-elect” despite his “convincing” victory.
Putin dismissed as “fake” the dossier’s unverified allegations about Trump’s sexual activities at a Moscow hotel. He added that people who ordered it are “worse than prostitutes.”
Trump has rejected the allegations as “fake news” and “phony stuff.”
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8:10 a.m.
Donald Trump is shrugging off polls that show him with low approval ratings.
The president-elect tweeted early Tuesday, “The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like before.”
