MOSCOW\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Russia dismissed as false on Thursday a report that said a government think tank controlled by President Vladimir Putin had developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor.
“It seems, that in their conspiratorial consciousness the authors of this conceit did not weigh reality against their coveted fantasies, in order to once again draw attention to the theme … of Russia’s ‘participation’ in the preelection campaign in the United States,” RISS Director Mikhail Fradkov said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said people should not pay attention to reports based on anonymous sources.\u00a0“I don’t know anything about this, I can only say that seven anonymous sources are not worth one real one.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The documents obtained by the U.S. intelligence officials were central to the conclusion by the Obama administration that Russia mounted a “fake news” campaign and launched cyberattacks against Democratic Party groups and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the current and former officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That campaign began after Putin asked the institute to draw up a plan for interfering with the U.S. presidential race, said one of the sources, a former senior U.S. intelligence official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump, who won the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has said Russia\u2019s activities had no impact on the outcome of the race. Ongoing congressional and FBI investigations into Russian interference have so far produced no public evidence that Trump associates colluded with the Russian effort to change the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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