Asked About ‘Pee Tape,’ Putin Says He Didn’t Even Know Trump Back Then

US President Donald Trump (L) listens as Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. - The US and Russian leaders... US President Donald Trump (L) listens as Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. - The US and Russian leaders opened an historic summit in Helsinki, with Donald Trump promising an "extraordinary relationship" and Vladimir Putin saying it was high time to thrash out disputes around the world. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP) (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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During the press conference after their one-on-one meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked if he had any “compromising material” on President Donald Trump, alluding to the infamous pee tape—and Putin did not outrightly deny it.

After a pause and some nervous laughter in the room, Putin begged off the question, saying that he didn’t know Trump or that he was in Moscow then.

“Yeah, I did hear these rumors that this allegedly collected compromising material on Mr. Trump when he was visiting Moscow,” Putin said through a translator.

“Distinguished colleague, let me tell you this, when President Trump was in Moscow back then, I didn’t even know that he was in Moscow. I treat President Trump with utmost respect, but back then when he was a private individual, a businessman, nobody informed me that he was in Moscow,” he continued.

“Please disregard these issues and don’t think about this anymore again,” he finished.

Trump then piped up, saying that the tape would have been released by now if anyone had it.

The tapes were mentioned in the Steele dossier, alleging that Trump performed sex acts including urine with prostitutes in Moscow in 2013. Some have hypothesized that if Putin has recordings of the event, he may be using them to blackmail Trump.

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  1. HE also SAID he Didn’t know trump was in the Country at the TIME. ERGO, no Pee Tape.

  2. “The pee tape does not exisit. And when I say it does not exist, I mean that I don’t watch it all that often; only when “Russia’s Got Talent” is in hiatus and I’m bored with ordering people poisoned on a whim.”

  3. First, it’s been reported that Trump (who was in Moscow to leer at teenage beauty pageant contestants) had contacted Putin and invited him to the pageant. But let’s say Putin didn’t get that message: Russian intelligence is known to gather compromising material (kompromat) on influential Americans in town and file it away.

    The pee tapes are real.

  4. “Please disregard these issues and don’t think about this anymore again,” he finished. Sorry Vlad, that doesnt fly in the US yet.

  5. Avatar for docd docd says:

    There is no pee tape. It’s on Blu-Ray.

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