Former FBI Director James Comey claims that President Trump asked him to look into accusations against Trump that he hired Russian prostitutes to perform sex acts involving urine.
The request was an attempt to persuade first lady Melania Trump that the allegations were false, according to an excerpt from Comey’s upcoming book.
“He brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’ … adding that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true,” Comey wrote in his upcoming book “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” the New York Post reports.
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“He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie,” Comey added. “I said it was up to him.”
The sex acts were included in the so-called “Trump dossier,” compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, which claimed Trump hired the prostitutes during a stay at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow and engaged in sex acts involving urine on a bed previously slept on by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. The dossier claimed that Russia had tape of Trump paying the prostitutes.
The dossier, published in full by BuzzFeed last year, contains a number of salacious and unverified claims about Trump’s ties to Russia.
According to Comey, Trump brought up investigating the allegations the same time he asked Comey for “loyalty” at a White House dinner in January 2017. Comey said he cautioned Trump that a probe could “create a narrative that we were investigating him personally.”
Trump said that was possible, but requested Comey to keep thinking about about the option, Comey wrote.
Comey also speculated why Melania Trump would believe the allegation and said there is “zero chance” his own wife would trust an accusation of that nature.
“In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do that?” Comey wrote.
The book will detail Comey’s thoughts on “what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions,” according to its publisher, Flatiron Books. It is set to be published on April 17.
Comey was fired by Trump last spring.
