President Trump’s former bodyguard Keith Schiller told Congressional investigators that a Russian involved in the 2013 Miss Universe pageant offered to ‘send five women’ to Donald Trump’s hotel room, NBC News first reported.
‘We don’t do that type of stuff,’ said Schiller, who told lawmakers he first thought the offer was a joke, two sources who attended the closed-door hearing told NBC.
Two sources also said that Schiller spoke of the conversation to push back against allegations that Trump had engaged with a number of Russian prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room, asking them to urinate on the bed, a place where President Obama once slept.
President Trump’s longtime bodyguard talked to lawmakers and told them Trump was offered five Russian women during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant – but the offer was declined
President Trump is photographed at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow alongside Emin Agalarov (left) and Aras Agalarov (right)
These allegations were found in the dirty dossier, opposition research gathered by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, which was partially financed by an unnamed Republican, along with Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
At the hearing, Schiller described his reaction to the ‘golden showers’ story as being, ‘Oh my God, that’s bulls***,’ two of NBC’s sources said.
The network, overall, talked to three people in the room about Schiller’s testimony.
Already, Schiller’s attorney Stuart Sears is pushing back, telling NBC, ‘the versions of Mr. Schiller’s testimony being leaked to the press are blatantly false and misleading.’
Two sources told NBC that the conversation about the quartet of women took place after a morning meeting about the pageant in Moscow.
The pageant took place on November 9, 2013.
Schiller told lawmakers that he discussed the conversation with Trump that night and the two men laughed about it, as Trump went to bed alone.
Schiller, who had been Trump’s longtime bodyguard until leaving a White House gig in September, said he hung around outside of Trump’s hotel room for awhile and then went to bed, two sources told NBC.
One source told the network that Schiller said he eventually left the corridor and thus couldn’t say for sure what happened for the rest of the night.
The Associated Press reported back in July that Azerbaijani-Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, who alongside his father Aras had helped Trump bring the pageant to Russia, had offered to send prostitutes to Trump’s hotel room.
The AP’s source said Emin Agalarov’s offer was rebuffed by Schiller the bodyguard.