Hours after Buzzfeed posted an article about Donald Trump with embarrassing claims involving prostitutes and urination, the President-elect lashed out on Twitter, declaring the situation “FAKE NEWS.”
FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
“FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT,” the president-elect wrote. Though he didn’t say what story he was referring to, the timing — and the fact that the story dominated social media late Tuesday — left little doubt.
BuzzFeed reported Tuesday that a dossier “making explosive — but unverified” allegations has been circulating for weeks among elected officials, intelligence agents and reporters. It alleges that the Russian government has been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” Trump for years.
CNN reported Tuesday both President Barack Obama and Trump were given a two-page synopsis of the report, which includes what BuzzFeed calls “specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives, and graphic claims of sexual acts documented by the Russians.”
Those include this one:
“According to Source D, where s/he had been present, TRUMP’s (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs OBAMA (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) in front of him.”
The report went on to say that Trump’s behavior in Russia over the years had provided authorities there with enough “embarrassing material” on the president-elect to “blackmail him if they so wished.”
A representative for the Trump campaign has not yet responded to TheWrap’s request for comment.