In Trump's case, he claimed he had a relationship with Putin, before he said he doesn't have one.
In Hillary's case, as SoS she let the Rooskies gain control of our nation's uranium production - while coincidentally $200,000,000.00 was given to her family's "charity", and she stood up to those Slavic cretins and bravely gave the bastages a "Reset Overcharge" button!
So what if John Podesta's firm got $35 million from them. That's $35 million less than they had... She'll keep this up and they'll run out of cash, and then she'll have them eating out of her hand.