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'No collusion': Trump and Putin deny election meddling in TV interviews

Trump uses Fox News appearance to praise Putin as ‘very strong’, while Putin denies having compromising material on president

Fresh off a controversial summit that drew widespread condemnation from America and its allies, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump struck a defiant tone in a pair of television interviews that sought to dismiss Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Hours after Trump’s joint appearance with Putin in Helsinki was dubbed by some US officials as “treasonous”, the Russian president rejected allegations that his government meddled in the 2016 election as “utterly ridiculous”.

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