This may not seem like a big deal, but it was this allegation that drove Steele to believe that Trump could be subject to blackmail and made Steele feel like he needed to report it to the FBI. It was this allegation that set it all in motion.
What a sh!t show the dossier unleashed. Rumors and half truths peddled to by Hillary/Fusion/MSM and unbelievably the FBI all to destroy Trump
But now there is new reporting to suggest the dossier's creators had serious doubts about the veracity of the "golden showers" story from the very beginning. Despite those doubts, dossier author Christopher Steele included the "golden showers" account in his collection of anti-Trump intelligence, and the dubious charges set off a series of events that changed the course of the Trump-Russia investigation.
According to Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS opposition researcher who commissioned the dossier, Steele felt the hotel sex allegation was devastating because it could lead to blackmail of a U.S. presidential candidate.....
......When Simpson and Steele discussed whether the information should be given to the FBI, Steele pointed to the possibility of blackmail over the alleged hotel incident as the reason to contact the bureau. "His concern … is whether or not there was blackmail going on, whether a political candidate was being blackmailed or had been compromised," Simpson told the Senate Judiciary Committee last year. "He honed in on this issue of blackmail as being a significant national security issue.".....
.......First, Isikoff and Corn suggest, without saying so explicitly, that the available circumstantial evidence makes the "golden showers" story very unlikely. Reconstructing Trump's time in Moscow for the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant, Isikoff and Corn report that Trump stayed just one night in Moscow. (Trump did in fact stay in the Ritz Carlton presidential suite where Obama had been a few years earlier.) After arriving in Moscow, Trump attended a brief meeting at the hotel and then left for a day of meetings elsewhere.
That night, an "exhausted" Trump went to a party at which he agreed to take part in a video shoot the next morning between 7:45 a.m. and 8:10 a.m. Trump then left the party at 1:30 a.m. "This would be his only night in Moscow," Isikoff and Corn write. Trump went to his room, where, according to aide Keith Schiller, Schiller stood guard outside for a while before leaving. The next morning, Isikoff and Corn write, Trump showed up for the video shoot and started another long day. The pageant was that night, followed by another party, after which Trump went to the airport for a private flight back to the U.S.
The schedule did not leave a lot of time for kompromat. But maybe Trump, in between arriving at the Ritz Carlton around 2:00 a.m. and being on a video set at 7:45 a.m. -- maybe he had time for the "golden showers" scene then? Anything is possible, but other evidence presented by Isikoff and Corn suggests that Steele's sources were not terribly reliable........
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But what did Millian really know? From Isikoff and Corn:
The memo had described Millian as a Trump intimate, but there was no public evidence he was close to the mogul at that time or was in Moscow during the Miss Universe event. Had Millian made something up or repeated rumors he had heard from others to impress Steele's collector? Simpson had his doubts. He considered Millian a big talker.
Steele and his colleagues knew all along there wasn't much to back up the "golden showers" story. "Steele's faith in the sensational sex claim would fade over time," Isikoff and Corn continued. "As for the likelihood of the claim that prostitutes had urinated in Trump's presence, Steele would say to colleagues, 'It's fifty-fifty.'"
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-trump-dossier-authors-doubt-golden-shower-allegation
What a sh!t show the dossier unleashed. Rumors and half truths peddled to by Hillary/Fusion/MSM and unbelievably the FBI all to destroy Trump
But now there is new reporting to suggest the dossier's creators had serious doubts about the veracity of the "golden showers" story from the very beginning. Despite those doubts, dossier author Christopher Steele included the "golden showers" account in his collection of anti-Trump intelligence, and the dubious charges set off a series of events that changed the course of the Trump-Russia investigation.
According to Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS opposition researcher who commissioned the dossier, Steele felt the hotel sex allegation was devastating because it could lead to blackmail of a U.S. presidential candidate.....
......When Simpson and Steele discussed whether the information should be given to the FBI, Steele pointed to the possibility of blackmail over the alleged hotel incident as the reason to contact the bureau. "His concern … is whether or not there was blackmail going on, whether a political candidate was being blackmailed or had been compromised," Simpson told the Senate Judiciary Committee last year. "He honed in on this issue of blackmail as being a significant national security issue.".....
.......First, Isikoff and Corn suggest, without saying so explicitly, that the available circumstantial evidence makes the "golden showers" story very unlikely. Reconstructing Trump's time in Moscow for the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant, Isikoff and Corn report that Trump stayed just one night in Moscow. (Trump did in fact stay in the Ritz Carlton presidential suite where Obama had been a few years earlier.) After arriving in Moscow, Trump attended a brief meeting at the hotel and then left for a day of meetings elsewhere.
That night, an "exhausted" Trump went to a party at which he agreed to take part in a video shoot the next morning between 7:45 a.m. and 8:10 a.m. Trump then left the party at 1:30 a.m. "This would be his only night in Moscow," Isikoff and Corn write. Trump went to his room, where, according to aide Keith Schiller, Schiller stood guard outside for a while before leaving. The next morning, Isikoff and Corn write, Trump showed up for the video shoot and started another long day. The pageant was that night, followed by another party, after which Trump went to the airport for a private flight back to the U.S.
The schedule did not leave a lot of time for kompromat. But maybe Trump, in between arriving at the Ritz Carlton around 2:00 a.m. and being on a video set at 7:45 a.m. -- maybe he had time for the "golden showers" scene then? Anything is possible, but other evidence presented by Isikoff and Corn suggests that Steele's sources were not terribly reliable........
.....
But what did Millian really know? From Isikoff and Corn:
The memo had described Millian as a Trump intimate, but there was no public evidence he was close to the mogul at that time or was in Moscow during the Miss Universe event. Had Millian made something up or repeated rumors he had heard from others to impress Steele's collector? Simpson had his doubts. He considered Millian a big talker.
Steele and his colleagues knew all along there wasn't much to back up the "golden showers" story. "Steele's faith in the sensational sex claim would fade over time," Isikoff and Corn continued. "As for the likelihood of the claim that prostitutes had urinated in Trump's presence, Steele would say to colleagues, 'It's fifty-fifty.'"
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-trump-dossier-authors-doubt-golden-shower-allegation
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