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Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to send Congress
and the Senate records from U.S. President Donald Trump’s May 10
meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, dismissing the
furor in Washington as "political schizophrenia."

Trump has come under fire for reportedly leaking Israeli
intelligence to Russia during the visit. The White House
initially dismissed the reports, before Trump tweeted he had
every “right” to share information with the Russian delegation.

At a meeting with the Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni,
Putin joked that Lavrov needs to be reprimanded because “he has
not shared these secrets with us,” Russian news agency Interfax
reported Wednesday.

“Not with me, not with representatives of Russia’s special
services,” Putin said. “That’s very bad of him.”

On a more serious note, Putin said, “If the U.S. administration
considers it possible, we are ready to deliver the record of
Lavrov and Trump’s meeting to the Senate and the Congress of the
U.S.”

"Of course [this will happen] in the occasion that the American
administration wants this,” he added. Putin did not clarify what
exactly the “record” is, although Italian press reported it was
written minutes from the meeting. Later a Kremlin aide, Dmitry
Ushakov, clarified to Reuters that it was a written record held
by Moscow, as the president’s word choice was ambiguous.

Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman has already dismissed the
reports of Trump leaking intelligence to Russia, claiming that
they have been fabricated as part of a wider media “sensation”
around Lavrov’s visit.

Putin sent a defiant statement to those casting suspicion over
Trump’s attitude to Russia Wednesday, accusing them of being
detrimental to the U.S. itself. “To date, the process of
political struggle in the United States of concern to us,
because it is difficult for us to imagine what the people who
generate such nonsense on the basis of inciting anti-Russian
sentiments, can think of next," Putin said. "Either these people
do not realize that they are harming their own country, and then
they are just stupid or they understand everything, in which
case they are dangerous and unscrupulous people."

Trump, who repeatedly said on the campaign trail he hoped to
“get along” with Russia, has adopted a similar line to the
Kremlin when it comes critical media coverage. Investigative
reports into his team’s ties with Russia has already cost the
job of ex-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.

http://www.newsweek.com/putin-ready-send-records-trump-lavrov- meeting-senate-610783?google_editors_picks=true

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