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Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway today called the allegations “nonsense from the internet.”

Michael Cohen, a Trump lawyer and campaign adviser, denied a specific claim in the documents that during the election campaign he had flown to Prague in the Czech Republic to meet secretly with Russian officials to discuss the hacks on the Clinton campaign.

“I’ve never actually walked the land in Prague, and last August I was not in Prague,” Cohen told ABC News.

The memos do not provide any supporting materials to back up the allegations, beyond statements from anonymous sources supposedly close to senior Russian officials. But U.S. officials have told ABC News it had become difficult to ignore them as Trump continued to make positive statements about Putin, even as American intelligence agencies alleged the Kremlin had mounted a major cyberoperation to interfere with U.S. elections.

Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday pressed FBI Director James Comey on whether he had conducted an investigation into the allegations. Comey declined to answer, citing agency policy, but a senior official briefed on the issue said the allegations were too serious to ignore.

The memos were reportedly raised in a classified briefing given separately by America’s top intelligence officials to President Obama and Trump last week on the Russian effort to interfere in the presidential race. A declassified summary of the intelligence report presented to Trump was released publicly last week and accused Moscow of running an unprecedented operation involving the release of Democratic Party documents, as well as a state propaganda campaign intended to undermine Clinton and bolster Trump.

Trump has previously mostly mocked that judgment by the U.S. intelligence agencies, though he accepted after the briefing that Russia may have been involved.

The claims in the memos, though, are far more extraordinary and U.S. intelligence officials have said they have struggled to confirm them.

The memos allege the Kremlin began targeting Trump as many as eight years ago, hoping to use him to disrupt the U.S. political system.

The Kremlin and other Russians officials today said that was absurd.

“There’s, of course, no kompromat,” Nikita Kovalev, a former chief of Russia’s FSB intelligence service and now a member of parliament, told the Interfax news agency, using the Russian word for secret materials collected for political blackmail.

\"Collecting kompromat on a person whose has come and is occupied with conducting a beauty contest; who is that interesting for?” asked Kovalev, who ran the FSB from 1996-1998, long before Trump’s 2013 visit.

“In Russia, I can say from my own experience that we don't have such practices.”

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