British spy exposed
“It was gotten by opponents of ours. It was a group of opponents that got together. Sick people and they got together and put that crap together,” he said. He also lashed out at CNN for reporting “fake news.”
Trump obliquely referenced the most scandalous accusation, that he had Russian prostitutes defile a bed in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow used by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, by saying that he is a “germophobe.”
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who the documents say met with Russian officials in Prague, said Tuesday evening that he has never been to the Czech city, that he was in California with his son during the relevant time and that the allegations were aimed at harming Trump.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, mentioned as an architect of proTrump Russian efforts in the documents, said Wednesday that they were a “complete fabrication.”
Unidentified intelligence officials cited by CNN said that the source of the documents was a credible former MI6 agent and that he had worked in Russia in the 1990s.
Others have said that the bombshell allegations were thinly sourced.
Beyond the alleged Steele report, however, BBC correspondent Paul Wood said the information in the dossier had been circulating for months and was coming from more than one source.
He told the “World at One” that he got a message back from an intelligence source that said “there was allegedly more than one tape, not just video, but audio as well, on more than one date, in more than one place, in both Moscow and St. Petersburg.”
Orbis did respond to not a immediately request for information from the Daily News.
Steele’s website says that it “was founded in 2009 by former British intelligence professionals.” It features a photo of a Russian church on its homepage and claims to be able to deliver “high-level corporate ambassadors to promote clients’ strategies” as well as information for investors.