In an apparent reference to the growing scandal, Trump tweeted last night without elaboration: “FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
David Corn, the Mother Jones reporter who broke the story months ago, wrote on Twitter that he chose not to publish the memos because he could not confirm the allegations being made in them.
Classified documents were presented to Obama and Trump last week, sources told CNN and The New York Times, that included allegations about the purportedly damaging information.
Apart from sex orgies, the dossier also suggests Russian officials offered the Republican real estate magnate lucrative deals in order to win influence over him ahead of the election.
The classified intelligence report delivered to Trump and President Obama last week contained unverified allegations that it does, CNN first reported Tuesday.
The nation’s top intelligence officials appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, just days after the release of a report on the alleged role of Russian influence during the 2016 election and intrusion into both Democratic and Republican networks.
“Nothing’s been confirmed“, Trump senior aide Kellyanne Conway told NBC about the material.
Trump is scheduled on Wednesday to hold his first formal news conference since July.
The former MI6 agent, once based in Moscow, has been considered reliable based on his past reports, the news organizations stated. “The Kremlin does not engage in gathering compromising materials”, the presidential spokesman said.
But Democrats were left stunned by the developments. Twitter users began to post other random pictures that don’t prove they weren’t in Prague. “If true he should not be president”. He regularly consults with USA government agencies on Russian matters, and near the start of July on his own initiative-without the permission of the United States company that hired him-he sent a report he had written for that firm to a contact at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates, who asked not to be identified.
The existence of compromising and salacious information on Trump in Russian hands had been rumored since before the election.
Former Harry Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson also took to Twitter on Tuesday to say that the former Senate Democratic leader had seen the documents before writing an October letter to FBI Director James Comey about Trump’s ties to Russian Federation. It is likely to be weeks or longer before a clear sense of Trump’s actual Russian Federation strategy comes into view. According to Foreign Policy, Wyden countered: “I think the American people have a right to know this”.
Last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; Marcel Lettre, the Defense Department’s under secretary for intelligence; and Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command, about whether the U.S. had responded forcefully enough to Russian Federation to deter future hacking and information operations.
The document alleges that Russians have proof of “perverted sexual acts” and “that the Kremlin had been feeding Trump and his team valuable intelligence on his opponents”.
An active FBI investigation of the next president for ties between his campaign and a nation accused of meddling in the presidential election could further stoke mistrust in the legitimacy of the democratic process.