Kremlin says it's 'stupid' to say Trump is a Russian agent amid reports he tried to hide Putin conversations

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• The Kremlin on Wednesday said it's "stupid" to believe President Donald Trump is a Russian agent. 
• This comes after a New York Times report claimed the FBI investigated Trump as a possible Russian agent after he fired former FBI director James Comey. 
• Trump on Monday said he "never" worked as a Russian agent. 

The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected the notion President Donald Trump is secretly working as a Russian agent as "nonsense" and "stupid," Bloomberg reported.

Speaking with reporters on the subject in Moscow, Yuri Ushakov, a foreign policy aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said, "That's stupid. How can the president of the United States be an agent of another country? Just think about that?"See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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