Flight records seem to disprove Trump’s ‘prostitution alibi’ that he never spent night in Moscow
Trump gave the alibi to former FBI director James Comey, as he sought to shoot down an unproven claim that he had spent the night in Moscow with prostitutes
Flight records appear to have undermined Donald Trump’s denials that he spent a night in the company of prostitutes in his Moscow hotel room.
The US President twice gave James Comey an alibi for why salacious, yet unproven, reports about the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow couldn’t be true: he never even spent the night in Russia during that trip, Trump told the former FBI director, according to Comey’s memos about the conversations.
Yet the broad timeline of Trump’s stay, stretching from Friday, November 8, 2013, through the following Sunday morning, has been widely reported. And it is substantiated by social media posts that show he slept in Moscow the night before the Miss Universe contest.
Now, flight records provide fresh details and suggest Trump’s apparent account to be untrue.
Combined with existing accounts and Trump’s own social-media posts, they capture two days that, nearly five years later, loom large in the controversy engulfing the White House and at the heart of the Comey memos, which the Justice Department turned over last week to Congress.