Allegations By Former Miss Hungary Contradict Trump Claims On Dossier
The Election Cycle’s Most Explosive Story Takes An Unexpected Turn
Since the release of former MI6 agent Christopher Steele’s “dossier” on Donald Trump, journalists’ assumption has been that any additional attention to the dossier’s largely unverifiable claims will have to come from either the FBI, CIA, or MI6. In fact, it appears the first contradiction of claims made by President-elect Trump in response to the dossier has come not from the intelligence community but former Miss Hungary Kata Sarka.
As first reported last Friday, Sarka, who participated in the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, in May told Hungarian talk-show host Kasza Tibor that during a pageant after-party Trump gave her his business card, private telephone number, and hotel room number. Sarka has since shared the business card—which she kept, though she never went to Mr. Trump’s hotel room—with the media. The implication taken by Sarka at the time she received the card was that she was being propositioned for a romantic liaison with Trump, who was then married to current wife Melania.
The fact that Sarka told her story many months before Buzzfeed published the Steele memos lends credence to her story, and defuses any claim that the model is seeking publicity relating to the current Trump-Putin controversy.
Perhaps because one of the first reports of the story came from Perez Hilton, or perhaps because this is not the first allegation of infidelity leveled against Trump in the past eighteen months, response to the allegation has thus far been muted. But a closer look at Sarka’s account of the 2013 Moscow pageant and Mr. Trump’s strikes at the heart of the President-elect’s defense to the troubling allegations made by Steele.
Indeed, the importance of the Sarka story is not its juiciness as tabloid fodder—the sexually salacious bits of the Steele report are by far the least troubling, particularly in view of the report’s allegations regarding political collusion between the President-elect and Vladimir Putin—but rather that it reveals Trump’s dishonesty as to the dossier as a whole.
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