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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian singer Emin Agalarov at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013.
- President Donald Trump's longtime bodyguard and confidante, Keith Schiller, reportedly testified before Congress that a Russian offered to "send five women" to Trump's hotel room in Moscow while he was visiting ahead of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.
- Schiller said he rejected the offer and laughed about it with Trump.
President Donald Trump's former bodyguard and confidante, Keith Schiller, privately testified under oath that he rejected an offer from a Russian to "send 5 women" to Trump's Moscow hotel room in 2013, according to reports from NBC News and CNN.
Schiller said that he rejected the offer, telling the Russian, "We don't do that type of stuff."
Schiller reportedly testified that he talked to Trump about the offer as the two walked back to Trump's hotel room. The two men laughed about it before Trump went to bed. Schiller said he stood outside Trump's hotel room for a while before leaving. Schiller said he does not know what happened the rest of the night, but that he was confident that nothing had happened.
According to sources with direct knowledge of Schiller's four-hour long testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, the former director of Oval Office operations adamantly rejected many of the allegations made in a collection of explosive memos written by Christopher Steele, a veteran British spy, alleging ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Schiller's lawyer said in a statement to NBC that "the versions of Mr. Schiller's testimony being leaked to the press are blatantly false and misleading" and condemned the House Committee for leaking.
The Steele dossier, made public in January by Buzzfeed News, contains allegations that Trump declined various business deals in Russia but that the Russian government fed Trump intel throughout the 2016 presidential election.
It also includes claims that Russian spies concealed cameras in Trump's Moscow hotel room that filmed him with prostitutes who urinated on a bed he believed former President Barack Obama had slept in.
Trump has forcefully rejected these allegations.
"Does anyone really believe that story?" he said during a press conference in January. "I'm also very much of a germaphobe, by the way."
Natasha Bertrand and Jim Edwards contributed to this report.