Accusing Donald Trump of being a Russian agent is "nonsense", a Kremlin adviser said today after media reports that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation in 2017 to determine whether the US president was working for Moscow.
"How can you comment on that nonsense? How could the president of the USA be an agent for another country", Yuri Ushakov told reporters and added that the relations between the USA and Russia are "the worst ever", stating that nothing has been done to develop those relations since his arrival Trump came to power in November 2016.
The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, said today at the annual press conference that "it is difficult to understand what is happening with the accusations" against Trump.
"I can't believe that journalists in the US are honestly dealing with these problems," Lavrov said.
LavrovAccording to the New York Times, the FBI opened that investigation, which then merged with the investigation opened by special counsel Robert Mueller into suspicions that there was some connection between Moscow and the team that ran Trump's 2016 election campaign.
"Not only have I never worked for Russia, but I think it's shameful to ask such a question," Trump said in response to the New York Times article.
The American president has on several occasions assessed Mueller's investigation as a "witch hunt".
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