Russian President Vladimir Putin jumped to the defense of Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying that President Obama and the media are trying to “undermine the legitimacy” of the man he tried to get elected.

“We are witnessing an ongoing acute political struggle in the U.S., whose task is to undermine the legitimacy of the president-elect,” Putin told the Russian news agency Interfax, according to Business Insider on Tuesday. He also accused the authors of the Trump dossier of being “worse than prostitutes” and argued that “the media frenzy surrounding Trump speaks of the degradation of U.S. political elites.”

Putin dismissed the dossier — filled with unverified allegations claiming that Trump had been compromised by Russian intelligence — as “an obvious fake” and “nonsense.” He went on to argue that Russians feel no need to “chase every American billionaire” and added, in perhaps an attempt to suck up to the president-elect, that Trump “has been with the most beautiful women in the world, so why would he need prostitutes in Moscow?”

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/17/vladimir-putin-defends-donald-trump-who-he-says-is-being-undermined/