President Donald Trump (Screenshot of White House video)

(CNSNews.com) - President Donald Trump reacted Wednesday to news that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for a Russian dossier on the Trump team, calling it “a disgrace” and “a very sad commentary on politics.”



“Well, I think it’s very sad what they've done with this fake dossier. It was made up, and I understand they paid a tremendous amount of money, and Hillary Clinton always denied it. The Democrats always denied it, and now only because it’s going to come out in a court case, they said, yes, they did it. They admitted it, and they're embarrassed by it, but I think it’s a disgrace,” he said.





“It’s just really -- it’s a very sad -- it’s a very sad commentary on politics in this country,” the president told reporters at the White House before heading to Dallas, Texas.



As CNSNews.com reported, the Washington Post broke the news that the Democrats funded the dossier with the help of attorney Marc Elias, who retained Fusion GPS in April 2016. Fusion GPS hired former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele to write the dossier. The Clinton campaign funded Fusion GPS until days before the 2016 election.



The president also touted the Republican Party’s “great unity” and said his meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill was “a lovefest.”



“If you look at what happened yesterday at the meeting, we had, I guess, virtually every senator, including John McCain. We had a great conversation yesterday -- John McCain and myself -- about the military,” Trump said.



“I think we had a -- I called it a lovefest. It was almost a lovefest. Maybe it was a lovefest, but we -- standing ovations. There is great unity. If you look at the Democrats with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, that's a mess. There’s great unity in the Republican Party,” he said.



When asked about Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) saying he was a danger to democracy, the president said Flake was against him from the very start.



“Look, he was against me from before he ever knew me. He wrote a book about me before I ever met him, before I ever heard his name. His poll numbers in Arizona are so low that he couldn’t win, and I don't blame him for leaving,” Trump said.



“I think he did the right thing for himself, but if you know, long before he ever knew me, during the campaign, even before the campaign -- I mean, he came out with this horrible book, and I said, who is this guy?” he said.



The president said when he first saw Flake on TV, he thought he was a Democrat.



“In fact, I remembered the first time I saw him on television I had not really been -- nobody knew me in terms of politics, but the first time I saw him on television, I said, I assume he’s a Democrat. Is he a Democrat? They said he’s a Republican. I said, that's impossible,” Trump said.



“So, look, his poll numbers are terrible. He’s done terribly for the great people of Arizona, a state that likes Donald Trump very much as even you will admit, and he would have never won. In fact, even in the primary, he’s way down in the primary, so he did the smart thing for himself. This way he can get out somewhat gracefully,” the president said.