This story has been updated with additional reports.ĬNN’s Evan Simko-Bednarski, Greg Krieg, Lauren del Valle and Rob Frehse contributed to this report. “’There’s no way I would let people pee on each other around me. “‘I’m a germaphobe,’” Comey quoted Trump saying. He wrote that Trump raised the prostitution claim at least four times with him and explained away the allegation in a call with Comey on January 11, 2017. The dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton and The Democratic National Committee. Believe me.”Ĭomey wrote at length on conversations with Trump about the salacious topic. Here are five things the FBI and DOJ never told the court when asking for multiple warrants, according to the memo. To bolster his dismissal of the allegations, Trump said, “I’m also very much of a germaphobe. Trump lashed out at the report and the publication of the dossier of allegations in a news conference in January 2017, saying, “It’s all fake news. There is no indication that such a tape exists and Trump has vehemently denied it. BuzzFeed News published the full, unverified dossier that included the infamous claim that Russian authorities had evidence of Trump watching prostitutes urinate in a hotel suite. I said it was up to him.”Ĭomey recalled the interaction occurred at the same dinner where he said Trump asked for his “loyalty,” which Trump has denied.ĬNN reported shortly before Trump took office that top intelligence officials, including Comey, presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him. … He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie. Steele reaffirmed his confidence in the most controversial claim in the unverified dossier that Russia had video of Trump watching prostitutes urinate in a hotel suite, according to BuzzFeed.
Portions of the dossier remain unconfirmed.Ĭomey wrote in the book, “It bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true. The dossier was commissioned as opposition research by political opponents of then-candidate Trump and compiled by a former British intelligence agent. Donald Trump, from right, at Miss Universe event on Novemin Moscow. “He brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing,’” Comey wrote. Schiller testified that he stood outside Trumps hotel room for a time and then went to bed. A Russian national who was a key source of information used in the 2016 dossier of allegations about Donald Trumps alleged ties to Russia has been arrested and indicted on. In the book, which CNN obtained Thursday, Comey wrote that Trump wanted him to prove the allegation was false in part to prove its falsehood to his wife, first lady Melania Trump. Former FBI Director James Comey wrote in his book that President Donald Trump discussed looking into one of the most infamous allegations in a dossier of claims about Trump and Russia.
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