Donald Trump lashes out at ‘fake’ claims of ‘perverted sex acts with prostitutes in Moscow hotel bed where Obamas previously slept’
Last night US media reported that Russia is holding explosive information on the President-elect which could be used to blackmail him
DONALD Trump has blasted ‘fake’ claims he watched prostitutes engage in ‘perverted sexual acts’ in a Russian hotel room as a “total political witch hunt”.
American news giant CNN reports top US intelligence chiefs presented a two-page synopsis on the shocking claims to the President-elect last week.
The dossier, which was reportedly obtained by a British spy, claims Trump watched the women have sex in the same bed where President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama slept.
But Republican firebrand Trump hit back at the allegations last night branding them “fake”.
He posted: “FAKE NEWS — A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
He later tweeted a link to a BuzzFeed story which described the story as “Unverifiable Trump-Russia Claims”, attaching the hashtag #FakeNews.
Related Stories
Top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway also slammed the claims during an interview on chat show Late Night with Seth Meyers.
She then said: “I have to say as an American citizen… we should be concerned that intelligence officials leaked to the press but won’t go and tell the president-elect or the President of the United States himself, Mr Obama, what the information is. They would rather go tell the press.”
When Meyers said that the billionaire was reportedly briefed on the claims, Conway said Trump “was never briefed.”
Conway attempted to cast doubt on the claims, saying that they came from "unnamed sources".
She said: "Nobody has sourced it. They are all unnamed, unspoken sources in the story.
"It says it was based on a Russian investigator... it also says that groups that wanted Hillary Clinton to win may have been behind the investigations themselves and most importantly, it says the FBI is trying to confirm it."
The report by CNN last night claims a British spy uncovered evidence of compromising and shocking sexual and financial information held by the Russians on Trump.
The hotel room, at the Moscow Ritz Carlton, was monitored by Soviet intelligence agencies, the report alleged.
Trump is due to be sworn in as the 45th US President on January 20.
His classified briefing was presented by four of the most senior US intelligence chiefs — including FBI director James Comey and CIA director John Brennan.
CNN said knowledge of its existence in Russian hands originally came from a former British MI-6 intelligence operative.
The spook was reportedly hired by other US presidential contenders to do political "opposition research" on Trump in the middle of last year.
The FBI was given the information in August, more than two months before the November 8 election, according to CNN.
What has changed since then is that US intelligence agencies have now checked out the former Brit spy and find him and his sources credible enough to include some of the information in the presentations to Trump, CNN said.
The existence of some information on Trump in Russian hands has been rumoured since before the election.
US intelligence also concluded President Putin ordered an operation to meddle in the US election to hurt the campaign of Hillary Clinton with embarrassing hacked emails, and then to boost Trump when they thought he had a chance to win.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed the conclusion that Moscow influenced the election while expressing the need to smooth over bilateral relations deeply strained during the Obama presidency.
The President-elect has yet to comment on the latest allegations.
Also last night Russia accused Britain of plotting an “official anti-Russian witch-hunt” in an outburst posted on its London embassy website.
It suggested some Brits are hoping to claim the Brexit vote was hacked by Russia and it claimed the UK government will try to turn Mr Trump against Russian president Vladimir Putin.
We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at [email protected] or call 0207 782 4368