Trump refuses to back off ‘are we living in Nazi Germany’ tweet

President-elect Trump on Wednesday said an unverified paper published by BuzzFeed that accuses his campaign of working with Russian spies to defeat Hillary Clinton is a “total fabrication,” saying even Russia agrees with him and then invoking the Third Reich.

“Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is ‘A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE.’ Very unfair!” Trump tweeted Wednesday.

He later slammed American intelligence officers for allowing the report to leak and invoked Adolf Hitler’s Germany.

“Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to ‘leak’ into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?” Trump wrote.

In a press conference later on Wednesday, Trump said intelligence officials leaking information that is false to the public would be something the Nazis would do.

“It was disgraceful disgraceful, that the intelligence agencies allowed any of the reports that turned out to be so false and so fake out,” he said. “I think it’s a disgrace. And I say that and I say that. That’s something Nazi Germany would do and did do.”

Trump added the Russians have no compromising information on him and he has no business dealings in the country.

“Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA – NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” he tweeted.

He said the allegations are nothing more than an attempt to delegitimize his election win.

“I win an election easily, a great ‘movement’ is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS. A sorry state!” Trump wrote.

The Kremlin denied the intelligence briefing released by Buzzfeed on Tuesday that listed severe allegations against Trump and his advisers as “pulp fiction,” according to CNN.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the documents alleged was in charge of working with the Trump campaign to defeat Clinton, denied the report outright.

Peskov said the Kremlin has no compromising information on Trump. “The information does not correspond to reality and it is complete fiction.”

“The fabrication of such lies in terms of the previous open part of the report, and this one which is a comparable lie, it’s called pulp fiction in English. Clearly, there are those who are creating hysteria, who are trying to support this witch hunt, and President-elect Trump himself described it like this,” he said.

The documents are a series of unverified claims compiled by a retired British intelligence agent who intelligence officers consider to be a credible source of information. The 35-page report has been floating among the top levels of American government and media circles for months, and Buzzfeed decided to publish it Tuesday in order to let the American people decide if they think it’s true.

CNN reported the report was included in intelligence briefings to Trump and President Obama, along with senior members of Congress.