James Comey's official portrait as the Seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Wikipedia Commons. Author: Federal Bureau of Investigation)
James Comey confirmed today that President Donald Trump told him he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about hookers.
In his memos, which were leaked Thursday, Comey noted that during a meeting on Feb. 8, 2017, Trump told him that the “golden showers” incident, during which Trump allegedly watched prostitutes urinate on each other in Russia, didn’t happen, and that he had not even stayed in Russia on the night it allegedly happened.
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“The President said ‘the hookers thing’ is nonsense but that Putin had told him ‘we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world,’” Comey wrote in the memo.
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On a segment of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, Comey confirmed that the President had said this to him. He also told Maddow that it did not seem as though Trump was speaking hyperbolically.
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