Putin praises Trump, says U.S. spies may have faked hacking evidence

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

TECHNOLOGY NEWS | Fri Jun 2, 2017 | 9:54am EDT

Putin praises Trump, says U.S. spies may have faked hacking evidence

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Donald Trump had run a more effective presidential campaign than Hillary Clinton and that U.S. intelligence agencies may have faked evidence of campaign hacking.

Putin, addressing an economic forum in St Petersburg, said U.S. allegations that Russia had hacked the Democratic Party to help Trump amounted to "harmful gossip."

When it came to the alleged hacking, he said there were no "Russian fingerprints."

(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh, Christian Lowe, Denis Pinchuk; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-economic-forum-putin-cyber-idUSKBN18T1Z7

[Kber]

1. Between this and his statement that hacking may have been done by "patriotic"

Individuals ( I.e not the Russian Govt) my guess is evidence of hacking is coming to light in the near future and he's trying to inoculate himself.

[Pachamama]

2. Project FUD from the Putin/Trump War Room is now officially being implemented

You have to hand it to Putin...he may be a short ugly bald man....but he has cajones and a level of audacity unparalleled.

Watched the Economic Forum feed live and watched that icy eyed bastard smugly answering and making this statement and mocking and laughing at the United States....

He was short of suggesting it was a 400 lbs 6 year old Russian Patriot artist...