President Trump called his wife to give her a heads-up about an alleged tape showing him with prostitutes urinating on a bed in a Russian hotel room.
A former West Wing staffer said that when the allegations leaked, Trump “called Melania to tell her, incredulous to the point of laughter,” according to Free, Melania, a new book on the first lady.
“You won’t believe this,” the former staffer said Trump told his wife. “She thought it was funny, too, and the two of them, together, remarked how ridiculous it was.”
The salacious claim that Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama once slept on in Moscow was included in a dossier on Trump’s alleged connections to the Russian government. The dossier was compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and eventually published by BuzzFeed.
Trump denied the claim in January 2017, saying he is “very much of a germaphobe.”
Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, who is now in prison on campaign finance violations and for lying to Congress, testified to lawmakers in February that he had no reason to believe such a tape exists.
A top counterintelligence official described to Politico in 2018 his consternation at “State Department officials of both sexes during the Obama years who indulged in sexual favors from in-room masseurs during their stays at the Moscow Ritz.”
