Donald Trump says the top US spy called him to “denounce” allegations that Russian intelligence have compromising information about the president-elect.
Mr Trump tweeted that the unverified claims were “false and fictitious”.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper did not go so far in a public statement on Wednesday evening as to reject the claims outright.
He said US intelligence “has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable”.
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