The document published by BuzzFeed Tuesday reflects a collection of memos that allege Trump is being blackmailed by Russian Federation over foreign policy deals and alleged sexual antics, including hiring prostitutes to urinate one each other, an act known as a golden shower.
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“This is an evident attempt to harm our bilateral ties”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow.
Mr. Clapper said the privately generated report was not relied upon by the agencies to conclude that Russian Federation and its leader Vladimir Putin tried to help Mr. Trump’s victory in November but there are overlapping conclusions.
John McCain has admitted handing documents to Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey alleging contact between the Trump campaign and Moscow, and that Russian intelligence may have compromising information about the President-elect.
The 35-page dossier, presented as a two-page memo to intelligence chiefs, was supposedly compiled from Russian sources by a former British intelligence officer named as Christopher Steele.
“The quality of this paper speaks for itself”.
“At this point, it still seems too early to identify a perspective for the future policies of the United States with regards to the Middle East, North Africa, or Iran”, the German foreign minister said. “Although there’s a sad side to this indeed. There are those who escalating the hysteria and who go all out to maintain a state of witch hunt”. Former campaign manager Paul Manafort stepped down over the summer because of his dealings with the Russian regime and is facing an F.BI. probe.
Trump then doubled down on the comparison during his first press conference as president-elect later that afternoon. “I think it’s one of the reasons I got elected”.
“I have never been to Prague in my life”, Cohen tweeted. He also tweeted a picture of his passport cover repeating the denials.
Trump has said the material in the dossier was fake news and “phoney stuff”, criticising the leaking of the material as a disgrace.
Cohen said that in the time the report places him in Prague, he was actually with his son visiting USC and meeting with the baseball coach.
But as the press conference continued, and Mr. Trump was repeatedly asked about Russia’s interference in the election, his patience began to wear out. “Of course, there is no compromising info”, he was quoted as saying. “Who can be possibly interested in that?”
In fact, the material in the opposition research dossier had been given to the F.B.I. before the election.
The validity of the documents was criticized by WikiLeaks.
National state-run television network Rossiya 1 made President Barack Obama’s farewell speech and the alleged compromising info on Trump the second main item in its news update at 11 a.m. local time, running a five-minute report from its US correspondent.
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The spread of this report about supposed damaging information about President-elect Donald Trump collected by Russian Federation became a public test of journalistic standards Tuesday but burst into public consciousness even as those standards were being debated.
