Ex-MI6 spy who wrote Trump dossier ‘wanted him to lose poll’

DEMOCRATS paid a British ex-spy who allegedly said he was ‘desperate that Donald Trump not get elected’ to discredit him, a top-secret memo released by the US President yesterday claims.

Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele was given $160,000 to write a dossier about Mr Trump’s dealings in Russia.

The unverified dossier, containing vivid claims about Mr Trump’s sexual perversions, was then used by the FBI and the US Department of Justice to secure a court order for a wiretap on a Trump aide during and after the US presidential election in 2016.

But the intelligence officials failed to tell a judge who agreed to the surveillance that Mr Steele had been paid by Mr Trump’s rivals.

The memo, written by Republicans on the House of Representatives intelligence committee, accuses the FBI of abuse of power by using unsubstantiated evidence to spy on Trump aide Carter Page. The FBI said it omitted key facts.

Although the most lurid claims in Mr Steele’s report have been not been verified, it hasn’t been debunked and some details have been corroborated.

It claims Russia exploited ‘Trump’s personal obsessions and sexual perversion’ to obtain compromising material.

Describing an alleged incident in 2013, it cites two sources, one of whom claimed to have been present when Mr Trump is said to have hired the presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow, ‘where he knew President and Mrs Obama had stayed’.

He then persuaded several prostitutes to ‘defile’ the bed by urinating on it as he watched, the report claimed.

The hotel, the Steele report said, was controlled of the Russian FSB spy agency ‘with microphones and concealed cameras in all the main rooms to record anything they wanted’.

Republicans criticised Mr Trump yesterday. Senator John McCain said the memo served ‘no American interests, no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s’.

‘Serve no American interests’