Russia dossier: Trump says it's phoney, lashes out at media

New York

DONALD Trump attacked US intelligence agencies and the media on Wednesday, as he denied explosive allegations about his ties to Russia, but admitted for the first time that Moscow had likely meddled in the US election.

Just over a week before taking office, he said he had ceded "complete" managing control of his global property empire to his two adult sons but stopped short of making a full divestment, earning a swift rebuke from an ethics watchdog and Democratic Party opponents.

Walter Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, said: "It doesn't meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every president in the last four decades has met."

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren told Bloomberg TV: "He needs to get rid of his business interests and he needs to put them in what's called a b…