![]() ![]() (Note that the claim is not that Trump participated in this display, but rather that he requested and watched it.) So the allegation is that in 2013, Trump hired “a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him,” aimed at “defiling” the bed of the Ritz-Carlton’s presidential suite, because Barack and Michelle Obama had previously slept in that bed. The “pee tape” allegation is in the very first of those reports, dated June 20, 2016. These reports cite several (anonymous) sources of information but on the whole tell a story of years-long ties between Trump and the Russian regime, and a conspiracy to influence the election. Steele’s “dossier” of research would eventually comprise 17 reports written over a six-month period. Fusion then retained the services of Christopher Steele, a retired MI6 officer based in London with Russian contacts, to look into the matter. In April 2016, Clinton campaign and DNC campaign lawyer Marc Elias retained the firm Fusion GPS to research Donald Trump and his ties to Russia. 1) What is the “pee tape” claim? Trump and his bodyguard Keith Schiller attend the final round of the Miss Universe competition in Crocus City Hall in Moscow on November 9, 2013. ![]() Yet still, we’re talking about it, once again. Perhaps most revealingly, though, even Steele and his allies have confessed some doubts about the “pee tape” tale to reporters they trust - a new book claims that Steele’s business partner says his dossier’s claims were “not meant to be definitive,” and that Steele himself has said there’s only a “fifty-fifty” chance this particular claim is correct. Then, of course, there was the revelation that Steele’s research was ultimately funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC, which raises some obvious questions about the project’s objectivity. However, there are also many reasons to think the pee tape story could be complete bullshit.įor one, we have actually learned more about Steele’s sourcing for the tale, and it doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence. And third, there’s the promise that documentary evidence exists. Second, it’s salacious, unusual, and sexual (and, to many, funny). First, it purports to explain Trump’s unusually pro-Russian and pro-Putin views with the idea that the Russian government has “kompromat” on him - blackmail material that he knows about and is seeking to prevent them from releasing. Yet the “pee tape” claim instantly overshadowed all the other Trump-Russia allegations in the Steele dossier, for a few reasons. Now, the question of whether Donald Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed five years ago does not, in and of itself, seem important to American public policy in any way. “It’s possible, but I don’t know.”Ĭomey’s book and memos also claim Trump was fixated on rebutting the accusation in private, and that he brought it up to Comey on four separate occasions, once even claiming that though he personally wouldn’t patronize prostitutes, Vladimir Putin did once tell him “we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world.” “I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current President of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013,” he said. Indeed, beyond the hearsay of a few anonymous people, we have no evidence that it happened, and Trump himself has vociferously disputed it.īut while promoting his book, Comey told ABC News that he thought there was at least a possibility that it really took place. The utterly bizarre allegation - which became public by way of Christopher Steele’s infamous dossier - has never been confirmed. ![]() The release of former FBI Director James Comey’s new book and memos he wrote last year has plunged the United States of America into yet another round of speculation about whether the Russian government taped Donald Trump watching prostitutes urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow in 2013.
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