There are long questions about the president’s affinity for Russia, which intervened in the 2016 campaign to help Mr. Trump, according to U.S. intelligence agencies, a special advisory inquiry and the current report of the House of Representatives for intelligence. Mr. Trump has called it all a hoax, publicly accepting the word of President Vladimir V. Putin that Russia is not interested and pressing policies useful to Mr. Putin and his government.
This month, Mr Trump rejected warnings from US intelligence agencies that Russia was trying to help him win re-elections in 2020.
“Together, the allegations pose a potential concern for counter-awareness, that Russia may use compromising information to influence the then presidential candidate’s positions on relations with Russia,” the report said. “The Commission sought, in a limited way, to understand the Russian government’s alleged collection of such information, not only because of the threat of a potential operation for foreign influence, but also to investigate the possibility of a misinformation operation. which focuses on the integrity of the U.S. political process. ”
The report released on Tuesday provided one of the most detailed official accounts of Mr. Trump’s time in Russia. Over dozens of pages in the nearly 1,000-page document, the report said a Marriott research firm told commission investigators that after Mr. Trump traveled to Russia in 2013 for the Miss Universe pageant, heard the executive two colleagues working on the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow discuss video footage they said Mr. Trump was carrying women in an elevator in the hotel showed.
Similar allegations have been made before. A dossier containing largely unverified information compiled by a former British spy, Christopher Steele, about Mr Trump’s ties with Russia claimed that during Mr’s trip. Trump in Moscow there was video of him with prostitutes in his Ritz-Carlton hotel room. A person who trusted Mr Steele for this information later told the FBI that the accusation was just a rumor that he passed.
The Ritz-Carlton, the report of the First Chamber said, is a “high-risk environment of counter-risk” which “has at least one permanent Russian intelligence officer on staff, overseeing the government of guest rooms and the regular presence of a large number of prostitutes, probably with at least the silent approval of Russian authorities. “
The Marriott executor told the commission that one of the colleagues he heard discussing the Ritz-Carlton footage said the video showed Mr. Trump “with several women” in the elevator, who the colleague ‘implied to be’ hostesses’. “
