President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE reportedly told former FBI Director James Comey James Brien ComeyDemocrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate Book: FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger October 2016 public probe of Clinton emails Trump jabs at FBI director over testimony on Russia, antifa MORE that he was considering asking Comey to investigate the infamous "pee tape" in order to prove that the alleged recording — one of the more salacious items in the "Steele dossier" — did not exist.

Comey says in his soon-to-be-released book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” that Trump “brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’ … adding that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true,” The New York Post reported on Thursday.

The conversation allegedly came during the same January 2017 private dinner conversation in which Trump told Comey he expected "loyalty."

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The "golden showers" allegation, which first surfaced in the unverified dossier created by former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, claims Trump ordered two prostitutes to urinate on a bed once used by the Obamas at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton.





According to The Washington Post, Trump repeatedly denied the allegations in conversations with Comey, and said that he didn't like how the claims affected the first lady.

“I’m a germaphobe,” Trump told him in a phone call on Jan. 11, 2017, according to the book. “There’s no way I would let people pee on each other around me. No way.”

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“He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie,” Comey writes, according to The Post. “I said it was up to him.”

Comey reportedly warned the president that such a probe might “create a narrative that we were investigating him personally," to which Trump agreed, but said they should both consider the idea.

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Comey writes that he wondered privately why the first lady would even consider the possibility that the "pee tape" could be real.

“In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do that?” he writes in “Higher Loyalty.”

The book hits shelves on Tuesday.