Donald Trump, Unprompted, Tells GOP Donors He Doesnt Like Having Women Pee on Him – Vanity Fair

In this golden age of true-crime programming, most people are well aware of the fact that if youve done something you dont want anyone to know about, whether its illegal or just embarrassing, you dont proceed to bring it up unprompted to a room full of people, which would obviously be a blatant tip-off. Killed your neighbor with a shovel? You dont show up to the block party and announce, I did not murder Jerry and bury him in my backyard this morning. Went to a housewarming party and on the way to the bathroom made a pit stop in the hosts bedroom, tried on all their clothes, and then rolled around under their covers? You dont rejoin the group and declare, You know what I definitely did not just do?

We mention this because someonelets call him Donald Trumpis apparently unaware of this well-known rule. Per The Washington Post:

In a private speech at [a Republican donor] retreat Thursday, Trump cast himself as the GOPs savior, saying he had brought the party back from the brink of disaster and helped Republicans hold seats on Capitol Hillfailing to mention that the party lost the White House and control of both the House and Senate under his presidency. It was a dying party, Ill be honest. Now we have a very lively party, he said, to a room of senators, donors and lobbyists, according to a recording of the event obtained by The Washington Post, before boasting of all the endorsements and telephone town halls he had done in the 2020 cycle.

In Trumps address, one of the final events of the retreat, the former president focused on re-litigating grievances he has retained since leaving office. Unprompted, he brought up an unsubstantiated claim he had interactions with prostitutes in Moscow before he ran for president. Im not into golden showers, he told the crowd. You know the great thing, our great first ladyThat one, she said, I dont believe that one.

Trump, of course, was referring to allegations in the Steele dossier, opposition research compiled by a British former intelligence officer that claimed, among other things, there was video footage of prostitutes urinating in front of Trump in a Moscow hotel room in 2013, and which was debunked by Robert Mueller.

Which makes it curious that, years later, he still feels the need to insist to people, who probably havent thought about the alleged pee tape in quite some time, that he doesnt like golden showers. Also curious is the fact that while Trump claimed on Thursday that Melania didnt believe that one, according to former FBI director James Comey, Trump had been extremely concerned his wife would think the allegations were true.

As Comey told George Stephanopoulos re: Trumps insistence the FBI investigate the tape he swore didnt exist:

He said, If theres even a one percent chance my wife thinks thats true, thats terrible. And I remember thinking, how could your wife think theres a one percent chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other? Im a flawed human being, but there is literally zero chance that my wife would think that was true. So what kind of marriage to what kind of man does your wife think theres only a 99 percent chance you didnt do that?

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Donald Trump, Unprompted, Tells GOP Donors He Doesnt Like Having Women Pee on Him - Vanity Fair