Trump impeachment far-fetched: Putin

December 20, 2019 00:10

Vladimir Putin leapt to Donald Trump's defence after the US president was impeached, saying the claims against him are 'far-fetched' and 'made up'.

Echoing the White House's language, Putin said the 'party that lost the election is continuing the fight by other means'.

Putin also likened the impeachment to the Robert Mueller probe into Trump's alleged links to Russia, which threw up no hard evidence of collusion.

The Russian leader has cast a long shadow over US politics since Russia was accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential race.

US intelligence services believe that Russia tried to help Trump win, but Trump himself has queried the findings of his own agents.

Trump has long faced suspicion at home over his links to Putin and perhaps the most notorious moment of their relationship was the 2018 Helsinki summit at which Trump backed up Putin's denials of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

The president said 'I don't see any reason why it would be' Russia, sparking a wave of condemnation at home. He later said he misspoke.

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