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Title: U.S. intelligence warned Trump about Russian 'perverted sexual acts' blackmail, report says
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NY Daily News
URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat ... trump-report-article-1.2943045
Published: Jan 10, 2017
Author: Christopher Brennan
Post Date: 2017-01-10 22:05:56 by cranky
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U.S. intelligence agencies warned Donald Trump about claims Russian operatives were holding blackmail against him involving alleged "perverted sexual acts" during stays in Moscow and St. Petersburg, according to reports. A two-page summary of the allegations were presented to Trump and President Obama last week in meetings with the CIA, NSA, FBI and Director of National Intelligence, CNN reported Tuesday. A longer document published in full by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday said that during a 2013 trip to the Russian capital, Trump made Russian prostitutes defile a Ritz Carlton bed where President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had stayed on a previous occasion. It said the incident was captured on surveillance footage. The accusations in the Buzzfeed documents are unconfirmed, though Trump did travel to Russia in 2013 when he hosted the Miss Universe pageant there. The Obamas traveled to Moscow in July 2009. The Daily News cannot verify the information, allegedly provided by Russian sources. "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!" Trump posted on Twitter Tuesday evening. Requests for comment from a Trump spokeswoman were not immediately returned. CNN reported that the memos were compiled by a former British spy trusted by American intelligence who was stationed in Russia in the 1990s but now runs a private intelligence company that does opposition research. The former MI6 agent’s write-up of the alleged info on Trump was reportedly paid for by those supporting other Republicans, and then by those supporting Hillary Clinton. He told Mother Jones in late October that his work "started off as a fairly general inquiry" but that he began sending information to a contact at the FBI in July after he realized it was "sufficiently serious." The 35-page report in Buzzfeed, which said that the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in central Moscow was bugged by the FSB intelligence agency, and that Trump also participated in sex parties in St. Petersburg where witnesses were bribed to be silent. It also includes other accusations that Trump was coordinating with Russia during his campaign. The report says that Trump had prostitutes defile a bed where President Obama slept at the Ritz Carlton Moscow. (Sergey Ponomarev/AP) The report says Russian officials, with the approval of President Vladimir Putin, have been "cultivating" Trump for five years, and that he received intelligence information on political opponents from them. Those on Trump's team who allegedly coordinating contact with Russia included Paul Manafort, who formerly advised the ousted pro-Kremlin president of Ukraine, lawyer Michael Cohen and adviser Carter Page, a financier who has invested in state-owned gas giant Gazprom. Yahoo News had previously reported that U.S. intelligence was investigating a meeting between Page and Igor Sechin, the head of Russian oil company Rosneft. Tuesday's allegations include that Page implied that a President Trump would lift sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration as relations weakened during the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea. Cohen, who is alleged to have had a meeting in the Czech Republic with Kremlin officials, posted a picture of his passport on Tuesday night and said "I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews." "I’m telling you emphatically that I’ve not been to Prague, I’ve never been to Czech, I’ve not been to Russia," he told The Atlantic, adding that the news was "meant to malign Mr. Trump." The FBI applied for foreign intelligence surveillance warrants on four members of Trump's team this summer, the Guardian reported, but was turned down and told to submit a more narrow request. It is not clear if the agency every succeeded in receiving a warrant. Buzzfeed said in a statement that it released the documents "so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government." It noted inaccuracies such as the name of Russian investment company Alfa Group being mispelled "Alpha." Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith said that "there is serious reason to doubt the allegations" and that his reporters have not been able to verify details in the dossier. The unconfirmed bombshell about the U.S.’s Cold War adversary and Trump comes as FBI Director James Comey told the senators that hackers had breached Republican groups as well as Democratic ones. FBI Director James Comey said that both Democratic and Republican groups were breached by hackers. He said that the information was “old stuff” and that there was no evidence that the Trump campaign or the Republican National Committee had been hacked. A report publicly released last week by the CIA, FBI and NSA said that the goal of leaking information from the Democrats was to influence the election and “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process” and to help Trump's chances on Nov. 8. Trump has dismissed reports that the Russian government aided in his election victory, and members of his team have said that attention paid to the hacking stems from a "sore loser" mentality. He said that the hacks could have been carried out by anyone, including "somebody sitting on thier bed that weighs 400 pounds." Russian officials have repeatedly denied having any role in ordering the breaches, and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said that he is sure that the source was not the Russian government The Obama administration issued new sanctions against Russia's FSB as well as the military intelligence organization GRU late last month, and also expelled dozens of what it said were Russian spies. Russian officials said that the move was meant to hamper a possible new direction in U.S-Russia relations under the incoming president, though Putin said that he would not retaliate tit-for-tat by kicking out American diplomats that his country deemed to be spies. Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham said that the Obama sanctions were "a small price for Russia to pay for its brazen attack on American democracy" and have promised a bill increasing pressure on important economic sectors such as energy. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) repeatedly pled ignorance when asked by the Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) about the CNN report during his confirmation hearings for Attorney General. “I’m not aware of any of those activities … I’m unable to comment," he said when Franken asked him about it. "I have no information about this matter. I have not been in on the classified briefings and I’m not a member of the intelligence committee." Earlier in the hearing, Sessions had refused to promise he'd recuse himself or appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if evidence emerged that Trump or his campaign staff had colluded with Russia during the campaign. This is a developing story and will be updated With CAMERON JOSEPH 
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It said the incident was captured on surveillance footage. Okay! Show the video! Oh Crap….I should have read further down ... More FAKE NEWS … Ho hum ...
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest A longer document published in full by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday said that during a 2013 trip to the Russian capital, Trump made Russian prostitutes defile a Ritz Carlton bed where President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had stayed on a previous occasion.
The accusations in the Buzzfeed documents are unconfirmed ….
The Daily News cannot verify the information
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