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		</div><p>Donald Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer has rejected a request for documents as part of Congress&#8217;s investigation into Russia&#8217;s election meddling and contacts with the Trump campaign.</p>
<p>Michael Cohen, a long-time legal representative for the Trump Organisation, remains a personal lawyer for the president. He served as a cable television surrogate for the Republican during the presidential campaign.</p>
<p>The House intelligence committee&#8217;s request for information from Mr Cohen came as investigators continue to scrutinise members of Mr Trump&#8217;s inner circle.</p>
<p>The president&#8217;s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has received subpoenas from the Senate intelligence committee regarding his Russian contacts and his business records.</p>
<p>Democratic Representative Adam Schiff said last week that a subpoena from the House panel was likely.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I declined the invitation to participate as the request was poorly phrased, overly broad and not capable of being answered,&#8221;</i> Mr Cohen said. <i>&#8220;I find it irresponsible and improper that the request sent to me was leaked by those working on the committee.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>He told ABC News that he had been asked by both the House and Senate intelligence committees to provide information and evidence about contacts he had with Russian officials.</p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said the allegations of Moscow meddling in the US presidential election are &#8220;fiction&#8221; invented by the Democrats to explain their loss.</p>
<p>In an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro, he reaffirmed his strong denial of Russian involvement in the hacking of Democratic emails.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Russian officials must be laughing at the U.S. &; how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election has taken over the Fake News.</p>
<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869509894688387072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Mr Trump made a similar claim in a tweet early on Tuesday: <i>&#8220;Russian officials must be laughing at the U.S. &#038; how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election has taken over the Fake News.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Cohen&#8217;s ties with Russian interests came up in February when the New York Times reported that he helped to broker a Ukraine peace plan that would call for Russian troops to withdraw from Ukraine and a referendum to let Ukrainians decide whether the part of the country seized by Russia in 2014 should be leased to Moscow.</p>
<p>The Russian government denied knowing anything about such a plan.</p>
<p>The NYT reported that the peace plan was the work of Felix Sater, a business associate who has helped Mr Trump try to find business in Russia, and Mr Cohen.</p>
<p>Mr Cohen was a fierce defender of Mr Trump during the campaign, often haranguing probing reporters and famously challenging a CNN reporter live on air to name the specific polls that showed Mr Trump behind his rival, Hillary Clinton.</p>
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