“If I’m friendly to people, I have relationships with them, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing,” Trump said in a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago.
If such conversations occurred, he said, “it would be smart.”
As an argument, he recalled that Russia and the United States are nuclear powers.
Previously, CNN, retelling one of the episodes from the book “The War” by Bob Woodward, cited data that Trump allegedly maintained contacts with Putin after leaving the presidency.
The Kremlin claimed that this information is false.
According to the presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, these messages are disinformation “in the context of the pre-election political campaign.”
