President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, called White House chief of staff Reince Priebus earlier this year to push back against what he claimed were inaccuracies in an intel dossier related to Russia, Politico reported.

Manafort spoke to Priebus just before Trump's inauguration after the FBI started to look into Manafort as part of its probe into Russian meddling in the presidential election.

Manafort told Priebus that the dossier of memos, reportedly written by a former British spy and alleging the Russians had compromising information on Trump, was "garbage."

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“On the day that the dossier came out in the press, Paul called Reince, as a responsible ally of the president would do, and said this story about me is garbage, and a bunch of the other stuff in there seems implausible,” a person close to Manafort told Politico.

An operative reportedly said Priebus told Trump about his conversation with Manafort.

Someone else who knew about the call called it a "very vague topline discussion."

“The only thing discussed was that the dossier was incorrect, full of lies, and was a joke. They never discussed ways to push back on it,” the person said.

“Manafort said if you want any additional details, give me a call, and Reince never called him back.”

Manafort this month turned over hundreds of pages of documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding its investigation.

The more than 300 pages of documents include drafts of speeches, calendars and notes from the campaign that the committee requested regarding its investigation into the Russian election interference.