It’s the Daily Beast, sooo… grain of salt needed.
Trump definitely acts like a person that Putin has a hold over. If he had, the only question is what this “hold” is.
My bet: A video of Trump happily banging a minor (or even several) in a Moscow hotel room. It would perfectly fit his personal profile, him being a “friend” of Epstein.
I’m not sure even that would be enough. It’s not even an open secret that he’s a pedophile and rapist. He’s been convicted of the ladder, and he was best friends with Epstein.
Nobody cares.
If a video came out of him raping children, he’d just call it “fake news” and move on, and his supporters would mostly follow him. They’ve made themselves totally subservient to his whims.
Nah, it has to be money. No way something like that would ruin Trump at this point.
From my perspective, this doesn’t seem very complicated. Putin is rumored to be the richest (now second or third richest) man in the world. Elon gave what would have previously been well within Putin’s budget and look at the absolute subjugation Trump is willing to put up with. This was always a quid pro quo, but Trump doesn’t operate on Kompromat. In my opinion, it’s just buying favor because it literally is that transactional. Trump will only rip you off if he thinks he can get away with it unscathed.
Doesnt this assume that if it weren’t for evil people giving trump money, that he would be a good person?
Not at all. He’d still do the evil stuff that benefits him personally, or that he does out of spite, or that he does because it riles up his supporters. Honestly, he’d probably still do some things to benefit Putin for free too, just to help out someone he admires. Still, I think he’d do less (or at least different) evil stuff if no one had been willing to buy him.
What would be notably different, I think, would be the amount of “disrespect” he puts up with from his buyers. Elon hasn’t once been publicly deferential to Trump, when everyone else he’s working with has to toe the line very carefully or get fired
I would say anyone looking for buyers on favor is inherently a bad person, especially if those favors are always anti-“the one thing you’re supposed to do”
A KGB rep already said Trump has “obligations” he needs to fulfill.
Just to play devils advocate, they do this to ‘stir the pot.’ Granted, Putin’s hand is up Trump’s ass to the shoulder.
Not that much of a mystery, really. Putin has had Donnie’s nuts in a vise since the 80s.
“Scaramucci did not elaborate on what he believes that “hold” might be, adding only: “I don’t know why it’s like this. [H.R.] McMaster couldn’t figure it out, [James] Mattis couldn’t figure it out, [John] Kelly couldn’t figure it out.”
We know for a fact, thanks to the Mueller Report, that the Pee Tapes mentioned in the Steele Dossier do, in fact, exist. They’re fake, but they exist.
"According to a footnote in the special counsel’s report, which was released Thursday, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze in October 2016 that said: “Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else. Just so you know…”
Rtskhiladze also told prosecutors that he was told the tapes were fake, but that he didn’t convey that to Cohen.
Well he was given a wife…
Sorry, which one(s) was that?
Yeah. But if you supported the alternative, you’re a genocide supporting false progressive blue or nothing scab. In all caps sometimes. Get criticized for calling out the sitouts in one thread, then in another they claim they voted Kamala anyway.
Seriously, I think these guys are running on a script.
Need more than hints and vague language, we all know it’s true, but release the peepe tapes now
This is the difference between the DNC and the GOP. Both parties know that the PeePee tapes exist and are fake, however the GOP would have released them in 2017 regardless of if they were real or not. Much like the trumping up of Hillary’s email server and Bengazi. It’s not about what’s true or real anymore. It’s about public sentiment. That’s how Russian and Chinese misinformation are so successful here. We’ve defunded our schools and have people struggling so much to make ends meet they cannot take the time off to vote, and when they do vote they’re often not really looking at anything else than how much groceries and gasoline cost. Which pointedly, the Executive branch has little control over.
We’ve been fucked since Reagan. John Hinckly Jr. frankly should have had more firearms training.
https://archive.ph/Q2DvN no paywall
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Why does anyone still listen to Anthony Scaramucci or Michael Cohen? These guys were never whistle-blowers, just con-men who changed teams.
This whole thing hinges on Scaramucci’s credibility, which means it should be ignored.
Oh wow, a wild Mucci appears!
I don’t think Scaramucci knows shit about fuck
