United States President Donald Trump's backing of Russia over his own intelligence agencies is a matter for the US Congress and the American people to sort out, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says.
Peters, who is Acting Prime Minister, told Radio NZ today Trump's actions in recent days were "bewildering".
"I've always been ultra-cautious when it comes to intelligence agencies. We all recall the second Iraq conflict, based on the weapons of mass destruction and the information that the West was fed, by both sadly the US and the UK, only to be proven wrong," Peters said.
"That said, I really think that these are extraordinary days. But in the end they are for the US Congress and the US people to sort out, and they are the only people who can sort them out."
Peters said evidence was yet to be laid out that would prove the scale of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.