Russian President Vladimir Putin distanced himself from President Donald Trump on Wednesday, dismissing the U.S. president as a man he’s met once but has no personal relationship with.
“We have zero personal relationship,” Putin said Wednesday at the Russian Energy Week conference in Moscow, according to Bloomberg Politics. “We’ve met only once.”
Trump has sought to establish warmer ties with Russia, apparently to little avail. He met privately with Putin for two hours at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July. And even after publicly accepting the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the aim of boosting Trump, the president has continued to downplay the Russia-cyberattack narrative and ensuing investigations into whether his associates colluded with Russian agents as a “hoax.”
Putin did praise Trump as someone who will “never be anybody’s hostage” but indicated that relations between Moscow and Washington, D.C., have been soured by domestic political fighting in the U.S.
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Vladimir Putin distanced himself from Trump, saying he has "zero personal relationship" with the U.S. president https://t.co/F8MwsRG9ND pic.twitter.com/VZCQtqUTsT
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