Former President Donald Trump reminded Iowa voters that he “doesn’t like raining gold” over the weekend as he denounced former UK spy Christopher Steele’s dossier in an effort to rally Republicans to vote for him in the caucuses.
Speaking in Fort Dodge on Saturday, Trump recalled how his wife, Melania, reacted to news of discredited claims that he had a prostitute urinate on the bed in a Moscow hotel room.
“Actually, which he didn’t believe because he said, ‘He’s a germaphobe, he doesn’t like that. He doesn’t like the gold bath as they call it,'” the 77-year-old Trump said. “I don’t like that idea. No, I don’t do it.”
The 45th president went on to say he thought news of the rumors “would be a big deal” and that “I’m going to have a tough night, but he’s very good.”
The rumor is believed to have been started by a PR executive with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, according to a May report by special counsel John Durham.
Durham wrote in the 316-page document that Charles Dolan, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential campaign and Virginia state chairman for Bill Clinton’s victories in 1992 and 1996, appears to have been “the actual source of much of the Ritz Carlton … information contained in Steele report.”
Former President Donald Trump told Iowa voters on Saturday that he “doesn’t like it raining gold.” AP
Dolan stayed at a Moscow hotel in June 2016, where he received a tour that reportedly included a stop at the presidential suite, according to Durham.
PR executives later met with key Steele dossier source Igor Danchenko on June 14, 2016.
Three days later, Danchenko met with Steele in London and the “urine tape” claim appeared in the documents two days later.
It claimed that Trump had rented a presidential suite at the hotel “where he knew the President and Mrs [Barack] OBAMA (whom he hates) has stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and [defiled] the bed where they had slept by using some prostitutes to perform a ‘golden bath’ (peeing) show in front of him.
Trump is accused in the infamous Steele dossier of hiring prostitutes to urinate on beds in a Moscow hotel.Getty Images
“The hotel is known to be under FSB control with hidden microphones and cameras in all the main rooms to record whatever they want.”
The report cites Source D, who “was present” for the supposed display, Source E described as “a senior (western) member of staff at the hotel, who said that … some staff were aware of it at that time and subsequently,” and Source F , “a female staff member at the hotel … who also confirmed the story.”
But as Durham looked into the allegations, investigators interviewed “Source E,” identified as Ritz’s general manager, who “denied having any knowledge of the Ritz-Carlton allegations about Trump at any time before they were reported in the media” and “vehemently . denied discussing such allegations with, or hearing them from, Danchenko, or anyone else.”
An unidentified American who accompanied Dolan on the tour of the suite also told investigators that a hotel staff member mistakenly told them Trump had stayed there, but “did not mention any sexual or lewd activity.”
Steele later told investigators that “Source D” was Sergei Millian, a Trump supporter and former head of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce who the former MI6 spy said had “direct contact” with Danchenko.
The former president is trying to woo voters ahead of the Iowa caucuses.AP
However, Durham’s team reasoned, since Danchenko believed he only communicated with Millian once — a month after the alleged “pee tape” made the dossier — “it’s impossible for Millian to be the source of the Ritz Carlton allegations.”
“Therefore,” the report concluded, “Danchenko’s statement to the FBI about having no prior contact with Millian was false, or Danchenko’s statement to Steele about Source D was false, or Steele knowingly provided false information to the FBI.”
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