Durham report: Special counsel names Hillary Clinton-ally as likely source for infamous Trump rumor

Special counsel John Durham identified an ally of Hillary Clinton as the source for the infamous “golden showers” rumors that circulated around then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

Durham wrote in his long-awaited report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump and Russia on Tuesday that Charles Dolan, a public relations expert who advised former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, visited the Ritz Carlton in Moscow in 2016 shortly before the salacious rumor was released.

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The Moscow hotel was the site of allegations that Trump paid prostitutes back in 2013 to urinate on a bed in the hotel’s presidential suite that former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama had stayed in in 2009. The rumor became a key component of the Steele dossier research file funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016 when she ran against Trump.

However, in Durham’s report, he writes that Trump did not stay in the presidential suite, but did not specify which room or suite Trump did stay in.

He then pointed to Dolan’s June 2016 trip and an email to an acquaintance in Moscow that said, “I’m in Russia making plans to be adopted in the event this mad man [Trump] gets elected.”

On June 18, 2016, the “golden showers” rumor appeared in the Steele dossier, according to Durham’s report.

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Durham’s report found that the Department of Justice had no proper basis to launch the investigation, and neither agency “appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” at the end of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.