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[[Paul Wood (journalist)|Paul Wood]], BBC journalist, wrote: "The significance of these allegations is that, if true, the president-elect of the United States would be vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians. I understand the CIA believes it is credible that the Kremlin has such kompromat – or compromising material – on the next US commander in chief."<ref name="Wood_1/12/2017">{{cite web | last=Wood | first=Paul | author-link=Paul Wood (journalist) | title=Trump 'compromising' claims: How and why did we get here? | website=[[BBC]] | date=January 12, 2017 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38589427 | access-date=March 14, 2024}}</ref>
On the subject of ''kompromat'', [[Bruce Ohr]] testified to the [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary]] and [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability|House Oversight]] committees that on July 30, 2016, Steele told him that "Russian intelligence believed 'they had Trump [[wikt:over a barrel|over a barrel]]' {{spaces}}... [a] broader sentiment [that] is echoed in Steele's dossier".<ref name="Tucker_Day_9/1/2018">{{cite web | last1=Tucker | first1=Eric | last2=Day | first2=Chad | title=AP sources: Former spy said Russia had 'Trump over a barrel' | website=[[Associated Press]] | date=September 1, 2018 | url=https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-financial-markets-ap-top-news-politics-970eefea2c154b3488ffde03a8a59d22 | access-date=May 4, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Herb_8/31/2018">{{cite web | last=Herb | first=Jeremy | title=Ohr says Steele told him Russian intel believed they had Trump 'over a barrel' | website=[[CNN]] | date=August 31, 2018 | url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/bruce-ohr-christopher-steele-donald-trump/index.html | access-date=May 4, 2023}}</ref> Paul Wood described the source as "a former head of Russia's foreign intelligence services... he said they had sexual ''kompromat'' on Trump going back years."<ref name="Wood_8/12/2020"/>
▲{{seealso|#Cultivation, compromise, ''kompromat'', and blackmail}}
[[File:President Trump Holds a Joint Press Conference with the President of the Russian Federation.webm|thumb|right|200px|thumbtime=0:10|The [[2018 Russia–United States summit#Press conference|press conference]] at the [[2018 Russia–United States summit|2018 summit]] in [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]], on July 16, 2018 (English version) 46 minutes]]
At the [[2018 Russia–United States summit#Press conference|joint press conference]] of the [[2018 Russia–United States summit]], when asked directly about the subject, Putin denied having any ''kompromat'' on Trump.<ref name="Mackey_7/16/2018">{{cite web | last=Mackey | first=Robert | title=Trump and Putin Met in Helsinki's Hall of Mirrors. Here Are the Highlights. | website=[[The Intercept]] | date=July 16, 2018 | url=https://theintercept.com/2018/07/16/live-trump-and-putin-meet-in-helsinkis-hall-of-mirrors/ | access-date=November 11, 2019}}</ref> After Putin was asked "about the purported existence of a certain racy video clip in his country's possession", Jay Willis noted Putin's strange answer; he could have cleared Trump but did not do so: "He's not saying it exists. But he's also not saying it doesn't exist.{{spaces}}... What this answer does not include: any straightforward denial that the pee tape exists."<ref name="Willis_7/16/2018">{{cite web | last=Willis | first=Jay | title=Vladimir Putin Had a Strange Answer When Asked About the Pee Tape | website=[[GQ]] | date=July 16, 2018 | url=https://www.gq.com/story/putin-trump-pee-tape-its-real | access-date=December 1, 2023}}</ref>
== History of rumor awareness ==
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