PhotoMOSCOW — Russia has denied having any compromising material on President-elect Donald J. Trump, saying on Wednesday that an uncorroborated report containing salacious allegations about him was “pulp fiction” intended to hurt Russian-American relations. “The Kremlin has no compromising dossier on Mr. Trump, such information is not consistent with reality and is nothing but an absolute fantasy,” Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, said at a regular news briefing. “There are people who foment this hysteria, who move heaven and earth to keep up this ‘witch hunt,’ ” Mr. Peskov said. The videos were supposedly recorded as “kompromat,” a Russian word used to describe compromising material that can be used to gain leverage. It was prepared for a Washington political and corporate research firm, and was paid for by Mr. Trump’s political rivals.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2017 11:49 UTC