Trump: 'Russia Has Never Tried to Use Leverage Over Me'

President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday vehemently denied reports that Russia tried to use compromising personal and financial information against him — and invoked "Nazi Germany" in claiming intelligence agencies leaked the "fake news" as a final shot against him.

He issued a rapid-fire series of tweets to deny the reports, and was expected to answer questions from reporters at a previously scheduled press conference later Wednesday morning.

Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is "A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE." Very unfair!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

I win an election easily, a great "movement" is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS. A sorry state!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

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?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

Earlier in the morning, Trump tweeted a link to an online article about the "unverifiable' BuzzFeed post that purports to be a dossier of the purported Russian blackmail information.

'BuzzFeed Runs Unverifiable Trump-Russia Claims' #FakeNews https://t.co/d6daCFZHNh

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017