WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Reince Priebus, the incoming chief of staff for President-elect Donald Trump, said in an interview on Wednesday that reports Russia has compromising information on Trump are untrue.
"It is complete garbage," Priebus said in an interview with Fox News. "This report apparently was written by some retired UK agent who set up shop and is getting paid independently by… someone in a campaign opposed to Trump to perform some sort of opposition research."
The documents, which BuzzFeed admitted were unsupported and which the CNN did not fully disclose due to lack of independent corroboration, also alleged that Russian intelligence had compromising material on Trump related to his "unorthodox behavior" during a visit to Russia.
The Kremlin said earlier that Russia does not engage in collecting so-called compromising material on political figures.
Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA — NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 11 января 2017 г
