Comey Memoir Claims Trump Was Obsessed With Disproving 'Pee Tape' Allegation

President Donald Trump is just as fixated on the so-called pee tape allegations as the rest of the world is, former FBI Director James Comey writes in his new memoir, according to The Washington Post and the New York Post .

According to Comeys telling in A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, Trump was obsessive about disproving the most salacious allegations in the infamous intelligence dossier about him: that there is footage of him watching prostitutes urinate in the same Moscow hotel suite that the Obamas had once stayed in.

Trump strongly denied the allegations, asking rhetorically, I assumed whether he seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes, Comey wrote of conversations he had with Trump about the dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

Trump brought up the alleged incident with him at least four times in January 2017, according to the 304-page memoir.

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Im a germaphobe, the president reportedly told him as he tried to show the unlikelihood of the golden shower event.

Theres no way I would let people pee on each other around me. No way, he reportedly told Comey, who served as the bureaus director until Trump fired him the following May amid the FBIs investigation into whether Trumps campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

Trump reportedly later asked Comey what he could do to lift the cloud surrounding the allegation due to pain it was causing first lady Melania Trump .