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No US relationship with a country has been more scrutinised than Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.

At a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Mr Trump defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 US election.

Speaking with the Mr Putin at his side, Mr Trump was asked if he believed his own intelligence agencies or the Russian president when it came to allegations of meddling in the election.

“President Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be,” he replied.

But a day later, Mr Trump said he had misspoke.

“The sentence should have been: ‘I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t’ or ‘why it wouldn’t be Russia’. Sort of a double negative,” he explained to reporters when he arrived back in the US.

The US intelligence agencies have accused Russia of being behind the hacking of the Democratic Party’s email server. A dossier has also emerged containing unsubstantiated claims about Mr Trump’s ties to Russia.

A special counsel was set up in May 2017 to investigate whether there was any collusion between Russia and Mr Trump’s campaign and whether the president unlawfully tried to obstruct the inquiry after the election.

President Trump has dismissed the entire Russia scandal as “fake news” and accused Democrats of launching a political witch-hunt against him because they are angry he defeated Hillary Clinton.

Mr Trump has tweeted more and more about Russia and the investigation in recent months – a sign that the allegations have got under his skin.

Since becoming president in January 2017, he has sought to improve relations with Russia.

In March, he tweeted: “I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing…”

In June, he alarmed allies by saying Russia should be readmitted to the G7 group of industrialised nations. Russia was suspended from what was then the G8 after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.