Moscow • Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump was impeached for “far-fetched” reasons, calling the move by Democrats a continuation of their fight against the Republican leader.
"It's simply a continuation of internal political struggle," Putin said at his end-of-year news conference in Moscow. "The party that lost the (2016) election, the Democratic Party, is trying to achieve results by other means."
He likened Trump's impeachment to the earlier U.S. probe into collusion with Russia, which Putin played down as groundless. Former special counsel Robert Mueller concluded earlier this year that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.