Danchenko said the contact told him that Mr. Trump hired prostitutes whom he instructed to urinate on each other and the bed where Mr. The story was that Russian intelligence had wired the room to gather blackmail material on visitors - and that Mr. Trump in 2013 booked the Moscow Ritz-Carlton’s presidential suite, where former President Barack Obama had stayed in 2009. One of them, he said, first mentioned the rumor about the tape. He said he casually steered conversations toward whether they had heard anything compromising about Mr. Danchenko met with several people - whom he declined to identify, citing their security - in Moscow and St. Putin of Russia contained plagiarized material - accused the senator of smearing him. Danchenko - who made his name as a Russia analyst by exposing indications that the dissertation of President Vladimir V. Trump’s allies, like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, began calling him a “Russian agent.” closed it in 2011 without charging him, but Mr. Danchenko was himself scrutinized in a counterintelligence investigation a decade ago. Threats and harassment followed, he said, escalating when Attorney General William P. Danchenko said he wanted to clear his name after his identity was revealed in July. “Who knows, what if it’s not particularly accurate? Is it just a rumor or is there more to it?” “Even raw intelligence from credible sources, I take it with a grain of salt,” Mr. Steele portrayed that information in the dossier, nor for making it public. He said he was assigned simply to gather “raw intelligence” for his employer, Christopher Steele, and passed along claims that raised a potential “red flag.” He noted that he was not responsible for how Mr. Danchenko defended the integrity of his work. Trump and the Ritz-Carlton, then obtaining more nebulous information from two hotel employees he took as corroborative.Īcknowledging that the material was too thin to amount to proof and saying that he himself remained skeptical, Mr. Danchenko described hearing rumors from two sources about a possible sex tape involving Mr.
The claim came from Igor Danchenko, a Russia analyst who gathered leads about possible Trump-Russia links for what turned out to be Democratic-funded opposition research. Trump’s critics and enraging his supporters.
But talk of a purported tape became a lingering touchstone of an era awash in conspiracy theories and misinformation - tantalizing Mr. Trump denied it all, no evidence emerged supporting the existence of any tape, and other claims in the so-called Steele dossier were disproved. Trump cavorting with prostitutes in Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel. Trump and Russia rocked American politics in early 2017, one salacious claim jumped out: Russia intelligence services supposedly had a video showing Mr. WASHINGTON - When the publication of a dossier of unproven rumors about Donald J.
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