![]() ![]() Trump has consistently denied that Russian intelligence agencies had launched a massive cyber attack ahead of last November’s election. It is not known if it included the most salacious details. However, McCain was so concerned about the information contained within the 35-page dossier, which included allegations that Trump had hired prostitutes in Moscow to urinate on a bed that had previously been used by US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, that he passed the information onto the FBIĬNN reported that intelligence chiefs had presented Trump with a two-page summary of the dossier late last week following a briefing with President Obama. ![]() The Kremlin has denied all of the allegations, while Trump tweeted: ‘FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT’. The new information, which has not been independently verified, claims that Russian officials also gathered highly damaging information on Trump, but only released the details attacking Clinton through the WikiLeaks website. ‘And then, a former British ambassador to Russia independently was made aware of these findings and he took the information to John McCain – Senator John McCain of Arizona – in the period just after the election, and showed it to McCain – additional findings. ‘They were looking at Trumps business ties, they saw some questionable things about Russians, about his businesses in Russia, they in turn hired this MI6 former investigator, he then came up with additional information from his Russian sources, he was very concerned by the implications of it, he then took it to an FBI colleague that he had known in his undercover work for years, he took it to this FBI man in Rome who turned it over to the bureau in Washington in August. However Carl Bernstein, the Watergate reporter who contributed to the first story about its existence, published by CNN on Tuesday afternoon, suggested that McCain was handed it by a former British ambassador to Moscow.īernstein told CNN: ‘It came from a former British MI6 agent who was hired from a political opposition research firm in Washington who was doing work about Donald Trump for both republican and democratic candidates opposed to Trump. The chain of how the document reached the FBI is not officially known. ‘That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.’īut the 2008 Republican loser, who disowned his party’s candidate weeks before the election, may have been far more intimately involved than that. ‘Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI. ‘Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public,’ he said. The Arizona senator had issued a public statement amid mounting questions of his exact role in the affair – and how a document riddled with errors and unverifiable claims came to be published. JOIN THE FIGHT: BECOME A CITIZEN JOURNALIST TODAY! ![]()
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