U.S president, Donald Trump says Putin would have preferred Clinton win

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president Donald Trump, battling allegations that Russia helped him win the White House, claimed Wednesday that Vladmir Putin actually would have preferred a Hillary Clinton victory.
Decrying what he called a political "witch hunt," Trump also came to the defense of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, after the release of emails showing his namesake's embrace of a Russian offer to provide derogatory information about Clinton during the campaign.
the email exchange has been described in some quarters as a possible "smoking gun" in the ongoing investigation by an independent prosecutor into whether trumps campaign colluded with Moscow to get the Republican elected.
but in an interview with pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network, the billionaire president nonetheless claimed his Russian counterpart would have preferred a win by the Democrat Clinton in 2016.
"there are many things that i do that are exact opposite of what he [Putin] would want," Trump said, even though he got along "very, very well" with the longtime Russian leader, whom he met in Hamburg last week.
"So what i keep hearing about that he would have rather had Trump, i think 'probably not,' because when i want a strong military, you know she wouldn't have spent the money on military," he said.
"when i want tremendous energy - we are opening up coal, we are opening up natural gas, we are opening up fracking, all the things that he would hate - but nobody ever mentions that," he said.
Trump said that while he only learned of his son's 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer " a couple of days ago," he did not fault Donald Trump Jr for holding the talks.
"i think many people would have held that meeting," he told Reuters news agency.
"this is the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. sad!" tweeted trump,who has kept a low profile since returning from a group of 20 summit in Germany and was to fly out of Washington again late Wednesday for a visit to France.
The Washington post reported that the Kremlin controversy has thrust the fledgling White House into "chaos" and left Trump "enraged that the Russia cloud still hangs over his presidency."
CNN quoted a top Republican close to the administration as saying it has left the White House "paralyzed."
Trump personally sought Wednesday to dispel the image of an administration in crisis and a president obsessed with TV courage of it.
"The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on Healthcare, Tax Cuts/Reforms and many other things. i have very little time for watching T.V." he tweeted.
The controversy spilled over Wednesday into the senate confirmation hearing for Trumps  nominee to lead the FBI director James Comey in May in frustration over the Russia probe.
Under questioning, Wray said he had not discussed the investigation - now in the hands of an independent prosecutor, former FBI director Robert Mueller - with Trump, and pledged to insulate the agency from political interference.
"there is only one right way to do this job, and that is with strict independence," Wray said.
"i do not consider director Mueller to be on a Witch hunt."



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