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Trump also slammed McCain Saturday for his vote against a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act on the Senate floor in July 2017. He provided a copy of the unconfirmed memos to then-FBI Director James Comey. McCain denied giving the dossier to BuzzFeed in a 2017 interview with the Daily Caller but did acknowledge providing it to the FBI. BuzzFeed then published the dossier in full, following CNN reports that President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump had been briefed about it. McCain associate and former State Department diplomat David Kramer received copies of the dossier in 2016 and shared it with a reporter at BuzzFeed, according to court records. But the claims that form the bulk of the memos have held up over time, or at least proved to be partially true.
The most salacious and damning allegations in the dossier remain unverified to this day. They alleged a widespread conspiracy of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, which both sides deny.
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The comments referred to a series of memos written in 2016 by retired British spy Christopher Steele. Starr called the dossier “a very dark stain” against McCain in an interview Saturday on Fox News, but also called McCain “a great man” and “an American hero.” “Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier ‘is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain,'” Trump tweeted, quoting Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated then-President Bill Clinton. Trump’s recent attack on McCain, who passed away in August, is the latest in his years-long offensive feud against the late senator, this time targeting McCain’s ties to the controversial Russia dossier and his vote against repealing Obamacare. John McCain Saturday - prompting the Arizona Republican’s daughter Meghan McCain to respond that “no one will ever love” Trump the way they loved her father. The White House and the Republican National Committee have been working to discredit Comey, using Democratic criticism of how Comey handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, and arguing that he’s a leaker trying to sell a self-aggrandizing book.ĬNN’s Eli Watkins contributed to this report.President Donald Trump again attacked late Sen. Trump tore into Comey Friday morning, calling him a “weak and untruthful slime ball” and a “proven LEAKER & LIAR.” “It wasn’t necessary for my goal, which was to alert him that we had this information,” he said. When asked if he thought Trump deserved to know that, Comey said, “I don’t know the answer to that.” “And then he says something that distracted me.”Ĭomey went on to recall, “(Trump) said, ‘If there’s even a 1% chance my wife thinks that’s true, that’s terrible.’ And I remember thinking, ‘How could your wife think there’s a 1% chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow?’”Ĭomey told ABC News that he did not inform Trump that the dossier had been financed by Trump’s political opponents. “He says he may want me to investigate it to prove that it didn’t happen,” Comey told ABC News. Trump brought up the dossier again at a private dinner with Comey at the White House in January 2017. In his book, of which CNN has obtained a copy, Comey writes that Trump spoke to him on four separate occasions to deny the prostitution allegation. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesĬomey paints unsparing portrait of Trump in devastating tell-all book Comey said that President Donald Trump pressured him to drop the FBI's investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and demanded Comey's loyalty during the one-on-one meetings he had with president. WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 08: Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Jin Washington, DC.
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