![]() ![]() Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, denied on Wednesday that Russia collects compromising material. Until Putin leaves office – or falls out with Trump – we are unlikely to find out either way, if ever. The FSB, does specialise in covertly recording high-profile targets, and it would certainly have been interested in Trump. You can’t see them and you won’t know,” he said. In those rooms you have cameras in the strangest places. He also suggested that he was well aware that spying can go on in hotels, including in Russia. Trump attacks media and intelligence community in press conference Guardian Trump dismissed the report in its entirety at his press conference on Wednesday as “fake news”. The sex claims about Trump are ultimately unknowable and what happened inside the Ritz Carlton is a matter of speculation. Over the past 16 years he has sought to re-establish Russia as an indispensable global player, and to challenge what Moscow sees as unfair US hegemony. ![]() It’s undoubtedly true that Putin has sought to weaken western institutions and the transatlantic alliance, plus the EU. No one could quibble with the report’s section on geopolitics. “FSB has compromised TRUMP through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him,” it says. It says Russia’s FSB spy agency obtained compromising sexual material – kompromat – from the hotel suite. According to the dossier, Trump stayed in the Ritz Carlton hotel, in the same suite used by Barack Obama. It includes lurid details from Trump’s visit in 2013 Moscow for the Miss Universe beauty pageant. The Trump material, by contrast, was explosive. The Clinton one was innocuous and mostly included bugged conversations. Russian spies put together compromising dossiers on both Clinton and Trump, the dossier says. The Kremlin also supplied Trump with “a regular flow of intelligence”, including on the Democrats and other political rivals. The dossier says that Trump was offered “various sweetener business deals” by the Kremlin, but turned them down. ![]()
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