At Wednesday’s press conference, President-elect Donald Trump pretty deftly skewered the latest “fake news” about Moscow’s supposed dossier of dirt on him, while further de-escalating tensions with the US intelligence community over Russian interference in the election. Let’s hope it all keeps calming down.

Notably, Trump kicked off by complimenting most of the media for not publishing or publicizing the dubious dossier. And he brought laughs to much of the room in pointing out how the most graphically salacious allegations make no sense: “I’m very much of a germaphobe.”

He made substantial points, too — agreeing that Moscow most likely was behind the hacks of Democratic e-mails, and effectively endorsing President Obama’s sanctions against Russia in retaliation.

He also reiterated his respect for US intel agencies — a point he’d made emphatically after last Friday’s top-secret briefing on Moscow’s misdoings.

Trump being Trump, he did toss in some bluster — warning of consequences if it turns out that US spooks leaked the “dossier” to BuzzFeed, the site that published it.

That’s pretty unlikely: These memos have been circulating for months, including within the Clinton campaign. (If dirty trickster Sidney Blumenthal ever had his hands on them, he’d be our top candidate for the BuzzFeed handoff.)

Some news reports now suggest the only reason officials even briefed Trump on the “dossier” last week was to give an example of how bogus supposed “intelligence” can be — an implicit warning against taking to Twitter with whatever “information” he might come across.

With BuzzFeed getting slammed from all sides for its excess, let’s hope the right lessons have now been learned all ’round.