Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday rushed to Donald Trump’s defense for sharing sensitive information with Kremlin officials, calling the scandal “political schizophrenia” and offering to turn over records of the meeting to Congress.

He said people blaming the president for divulging secrets to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during a White House meeting last week are just trying to foster “anti-Russian sentiment.”

“What surprises me is that they are shaking up the domestic political situation using anti-Russian slogans,” Putin said during a news conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni in Sochi, Russia. “Either they don’t understand the damage they’re doing to their own country, in which case they are simply stupid, or they understand everything, in which case they are dangerous and corrupt.”

“At first, when we saw how this process of political struggle is developing, it made us laugh,” Putin added. “Today it’s not just sad, it’s a matter of concern to us, because what else can you think about people who generate such nonsense?”

The president met with Lavrov and Kislyak on May 10, the day after he fired FBI Director James Comey who had been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump campaign officials cooperated with Kremlin officials.

No US reporters attended the meeting, but members of Russian state-run media did.

“If the U.S. administration finds this appropriate, we’re ready to provide a record of the conversation between Lavrov and Trump to the U.S. Senate and Congress,” Putin said.

Later, a Kremlin aide, Yuri Ushakov, said the Russians had a written record of the conversation.

US lawmakers scoffed at Putin’s offer.

“I wouldn’t put much credibility into whatever Putin’s notes are,” Sen. Marco Rubio said on Fox News. “And if it comes in an email, I wouldn’t click on the attachment.”

Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on a House panel investigating Russian meddling in the election, called it “quite amusing.”

“The last person Trump needs to vouch for him right now is Vladimir Putin,” Schiff said in an interview with CBS News.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said the offer is simply “absurd.”

“The idea that we would accept any evidence from President Putin is absurd,” she told CNN.

The White House first denied that Trump had divulged the information to the Russian envoys but national security adviser H.R. McMaster on Tuesday said what the president did was “wholly appropriate.”

According to reports, Trump told Lavrov and Kislyak about an ISIS plot to bring down airliners using bombs in laptops. The information was supplied by Israel under the condition that it not be shared with others.

Putin also took the opportunity to make a joke about the revelations.

“I’ll be forced to issue him (Lavrov) with a reprimand because he did not share these secrets with us. Not with me, nor with representatives of Russia’s intelligence services. It was very bad of him,” Putin said.

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