It's still unclear whether Trump's bodyguard was asked about one of the dossier's most salacious allegations
- The president's longtime bodyguard was reportedly asked by the House Intelligence Committee whether Trump had hired prostitutes in Moscow in 2013 as alleged in the Steele dossier.
- The question arose out of an allegation made in the explosive Steele dossier that the Kremlin tried to exploit "Trump's personal obsessions and sexual perversion in order to obtain suitable 'kompromat' (compromising material) on him."
President Donald Trump's longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller reportedly told the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door interview earlier this week that someone in Russia offered to send five Russian prostitutes to Trump's Moscow hotel room in 2013, but they did not accept.
The question arose out of an allegation made in an explosive dossier that the Kremlin tried to exploit "Trump's personal obsessions and sexual perversion in order to obtain suitable 'kompromat' (compromising material) on him."
The dossier, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, alleged that Trump hired prostitutes to perform a "golden showers' show in front of him" at the Moscow Ritz Carlton in 2013.
Schiller denied that anything inappropriate happened, telling the committee that he and Trump laughed off the offer and went to bed.
But the dossier also alleges, in a completely different section, that Trump "paid bribes and engaged in sexual activities" in St. Petersburg "but key witnesses were silenced and evidence [was] hard to obtain."
"Speaking to a trusted compatriot in September 2016, two well-placed sources based in St Petersburg, one in the political/business elite and the other involved in the local services and tourist industry, commented on Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump's prior activities in the city," the dossier reads.
"Both knew Trump had visited St Petersburg on several occasions in the past and had been interested in doing business deals there involving real estate...the local services industry source reported that Trump had participated in sex parties in the city too, but that all direct witnesses to this recently had been 'silenced,' i.e. bribed or coerced to disappear."
It further alleged that Aras Agalarov, Trump's former business partner who helped bring Trump's Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013, "had been closely involved with Trump in Russia and would know most of the details of what the Republican presidential candidate had got up to" in St. Petersburg.
The publicist for Agalarov's pop star son, Emin, organized a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower last June. Trump Jr. took the meeting after the publicist, Rob Goldstone, said the Russian government wanted to give the campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The Daily Caller reported in January that Emin Agalarov told Schiller that he was going to send prostitutes to Trump's room in Moscow. Agalarov's attorneys denied the accusations on Thursday.
It is unclear when Trump visited St. Petersburg, or whether Schiller went with him. Sciller told the committee that "he did not remember accompanying Trump on any other trips to Russia but told investigators that he could not rule it out," according to the Washington Post.
"Schiller agreed to review his passport and get back to the committee with more information," the Post reported on Thursday night.