(Daily Mail) Special Counsel John Durham’s report identifies Irish-born PR exec and Clinton ally Charles Dolan as the likely source of the infamous ‘golden showers’ rumor about Donald Trump in the discredited Steele dossier that ended up in the FBI director’s very awkward briefing on potential ‘kompromat’ days before he took office.
Durham’s 300-page report contains new information about the possible source of the discredited salacious claim – and puts together a detailed map of how the information may have come to light.
It says Dolan, a public relations expert with Kremlin contacts who advised Bill and Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaigns, got a tour of the Ritz Carlton in Moscow in 2016 and met with key staff members there.
Dolan then emailed an acquaintance in Moscow saying: ‘I’m in Russia making plans to be adopted in the event this mad man [Trump] gets elected.’
Durham’s four-year investigation concluded that the FBI never had credible grounds to investigate Trump’s links with Russia before the election and didn’t find any collusion. Despite the lack of substantiation the allegations were fed to the media and jumped on by Democrats and critics.
The damning report also states that the FBI wanted to keep paying Russian national and primary source of the dossier Igor Danchenko $300,000 – even after the bureau found his evidence not credible – in an apparent bid to buy his silence.
Steele was also offered up to $1million for the now discredited claims about what Durham describes as ‘salacious sexual activity’ by Trump and any links to Vladimir Putin.
Charles Dolan is a PR exec who was identified in the indictment of Igor Danchenko, who was acquitted after Dolan’s office brought charges. The Durham report says he was the ‘likely’ source of salacious allegations about Donald Trump at the Moscow Ritz
The report identified Dolan as the ‘likely’ source of information about salacious allegations involving Trump. It says he met with officials at the Moscow Ritz during his own 2016 trip there. Trump stayed at the hotel during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant – but not in the Presidential Suite, according to Durham
Presidential: Hotel records from the Moscow Ritz reviewed by Durham’s staff reveal that Trump did not stay in the Presidential suite, which was referenced in the ‘dirty dossier,’ during his 2013 trip
Mueller’s investigators interviewed hotel staff and interrogated witnesses in an effort to trace the rumor that became the infamous ‘golden showers’ passage contained in the dossier
The room where it didn’t happen: The presidential suite has stunning views of Moscow. But according to the $6.5 million Durham report, Trump didn’t stay there in 2013, notwithstanding ‘raw’ information that made it into the Steele dossier
The report goes on to finger Dolan as a ‘sub-source’ of information for Danchenko, a Russia expert who provided information that found its way into the Steele Dossier – and lays out the information trail that led to the golden showers claim.
The report devotes about six pages to tracking down a possible origin of the shocking claim – and blows up at least one element of it: that Trump stayed in the same presidential suite while in town for the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant at the hotel where President Barack Obama had stayed in 2009.
The detail is seemingly key to the story. According to the dossier, ‘TRUMP”s (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton, where he knew President and Mrs OBAMA (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia.’ It went on to recount information according to ‘Source D’ about prostitutes ‘defiling’ the bed in the infamous ‘golden showers’ episode.
However, Trump evidently stayed in a lesser room, although Durham’s team does not identify the exact room or suite.
Durham’s team examined hotel records at the hotel, where the Kremlin is believed to have a presence.
Durham’s investigators trace the material to Dolan, who took a June 2016 trip to Moscow in preparation for a conference in Moscow called the ‘Inside the Kremlin’ on behalf of the Young President’s Organization.
At the time, Dolan was already establishing a working relationship with Igor Danchenko, who was acquitted of charges of lying to the FBI as one of several Durham prosecutions that fell apart.
Durham’s investigators drafted a section titled: ‘Trump’s alleged salacious sexual activity at the Ritz Carlton Moscow appears in a Steele Report
Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele gathered information from sources and compiled them into what became the Steele Dossier
