Donald Trump said his wife didn’t believe allegations that sex workers had urinated on him in the disgraced ‘golden shower’ dossier because he is a ‘germaphobe’.
The heavily disputed, controversial dossier compiled in 2016 by former British spy, Christopher Steele, claimed Russian authorities had covertly filmed sex workers urinating on Trump in a Moscow hotel room.
On Saturday, the former president used a campaign rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to discuss the allegations, re-enacting the saga of telling Melania Trump about the claims for his supporters.
He said: ‘He was with four hookers. You think that was good that night? To go up and tell my wife “It is not true, darling. I love you very much. It’s not true!”
‘Actually, that one she didn’t believe because she said: “He’s a germaphobe, he’s not into that. He is not into golden showers, as they say, they call it. He’s not.”
Trump addressed the claims at a campaign rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Saturday
‘I don’t like that idea. I thought that would be a big problem. I was going to have a rough night. But that one, she was very good on. She said: “You’re okay on that one.”‘
He claimed the allegations are a ‘continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time’ against him.
Steele is the founder of Orbis Business Intelligence and previously ran the Secret Intelligence Service’s Russia desk.
He was the author of the so-called Steele dossier, which included allegations that Trump had been ‘compromised’ by the Russian security service, the FSB.
The dossier, leaked to BuzzFeed in 2017, also alleged that Putin ‘supported and directed’ an operation to ‘cultivate’ Trump as a presidential candidate for ‘at least five years’.
Among other things, the ‘golden shower’ dossier claimed the Russian security services could blackmail Trump with allegations that he paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed once slept in by Barack and Michelle Obama.
Trump has long denied the dossier’s contents and there is no evidence to suggest such a tape exists.
But Steele has since doubled down on his claims, saying the tape ‘probably exists’ and claiming that Russia may have it hidden because Trump offered the country ‘pretty good value’ during his time in office.
Steele has doubled down on the claims he made in the 2016 ‘golden shower’ dossier
Trump is a notorious germaphobe, known for repeating ‘I can’t get sick, I can’t get sick’ when kicking someone out of the room with a sniffle.
Before he was elected he once wrote the practice of shaking hands was ‘barbaric,’ as it spreads diseases.
Last month Trump attempted to launch a lawsuit against Steele in the High Court in London.
He slammed the allegations that he took part in ‘golden showers’ with Moscow prostitutes and paid bribes to Russian officials – branding them as ‘phony’ and ‘false’.
He is bringing a data protection claim against Orbis Business Intelligence and is seeking compensation for distress.
The High Court was told in October that Trump is bringing his case over two memos in the dossier that claimed the former president had taken part in ‘sex parties’ while in St Petersburg and performed ‘perverted sex acts’ on prostitutes at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Moscow.
Trump said in a written witness statement that the dossier contains ‘numerous false, phony or made-up allegations’ and denied that he hired prostitutes to engage in ‘golden showers’, took part in ‘sex parties’ in St Petersburg or gave the Russian authorities ‘sufficient material to blackmail me’.