President-elect Donald Trump opened his first press conference since the election by denying the report released by BuzzFeed on Tuesday, calling it a “tremendous blot” on the intelligence community if it had been released as part of an agenda against him. Trump also called BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage” when asked to comment further on the published documents.
The president-elect suggested that the document had been leaked to the press “maybe by the intelligence agencies, who knows, but maybe the intelligence agencies, which would be a tremendous blot if they did that… because it never should have been written and certainly never should have been released.”