I predicted almost a month ago that the only thing explaining Trump’s anti-infatuation with Putin was Russians holding compromising, if not incriminating, information on him and his family.:
Now, here is what CNN is reporting right as Breaking News:
Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.
Truth be told, we already know so much about the money-grubbing, pussy-grabbing Trump, it’s hard to imagine any information that could compromise him, especially in the eyes of his “basket of deplorables.”
But the alleged personal information might prove too humiliating for Congressional Republicans to defend:
Russian authorities tried to ‘exploit Trump’s personal obsessions and sexual perversion’ in order to compromise him.
The document also referenced Trump’s ‘(perverted) conduct’ at the presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, [where] the President and First Lady Michelle Obama ‘whom he hated’ had stayed.
It cited ‘Source D’ as saying Trump’s conduct included hiring prostitutes ‘to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him.’ It says the hotel was known to be under the control of Russia’s FSB, with hidden cameras and microphones.
(Daily Mail, January 10, 2016)
If he had any sense of decency, Trump would resign in shame … assuming this report is true. But I fear he will force Congress to impeach him.
I warned two months ago that Republicans would seize the first opportunity to replace Trump with Mike Pence, given Trump’s Nixonian inclination to punish enemies and Clintonian inclination to enrich himself.
On the other hand, if he were only a little smarter and less egotistical, Trump would admit it. After all, there’s nothing illegal about frolicking with prostitutes, no matter how depraved. I mean, it’s not as if he actually tested his political invincibility by standing in the middle of 5th Avenue and shooting someone.
What’s more, his wife has already shown that she’s every bit as willing to forgive his infidelities as his supporters are to forgive his lies. Not to mention that admitting the truth of this report would remove Putin’s Damoclean sword of blackmail from over his head. It would free Trump to treat him with even more contempt than he treated ‘Little Marco
Still, unsurprisingly, Trump immediately dismissed it as “FAKE NEWS.” To which the only appropriate comment is the old Greek proverb:
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
But God help us if this report is true. Because, by denying it, Trump is only strengthening Putin’s hand as his puppet master — with all of the nefarious compromises that portends.
Meanwhile, iPINIONS fears Putin has even more on Rex Tillerson, Trump’s nominee for secretary of state? If Putin has compromising information about Trump, he probably has it in reams (and in living color) about Tillerson. After all, Tillerson’s bromance with Putin is based on “doing business” in Moscow, not just for a weekend but for a decade.
Stay tuned, folks.
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