How James Clapper laid bare to Trump prostitute tale in debunked dossier
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Friday, April 20, 2018 It was James Clapper, then the nation’s top intelligence official, who insisted that President-elect Donald Trump receive a briefing on the Moscow prostitute tale contained in the Democratic Party-financed dossier.
The disclosure comes in FBI Director James B. Comey’s private memos released on Thursday. The Clapper angle adds another fact to the now-infamous one-on-one meeting between Mr. Comey and Mr. Trump on Jan. 6, 2017 at Trump Tower.
In his book, a “Higher Loyalty,†Mr. Comey presents the briefing decision as a collective one between himself, Mr. Clapper and other intelligence officials.
In a memo written immediately after leaving Mr. Trump, Mr. Comey wrote, “I said there was something that Clapper wanted me to speak to the PE [president elect] about alone.â€
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