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shraby

(21,946 posts) Wed Feb 14, 2018, 03:05 PM Feb 2018

Maybe, just maybe the fact that ones who couldn't get security clearance, but kept their

jobs anyway were threatened with exposure to the public if they didn't toe trump's line. In other words, being blackmailed by trump himself.

What better way to get things going where you want them, but having a secret to hold over the people working for him..

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Maybe, just maybe the fact that ones who couldn't get security clearance, but kept their (Original Post) shraby Feb 2018 OP

Kompromat? Sophia4 Feb 2018 #1

I like how your mind works, I hadn't thought of this. dewsgirl Feb 2018 #2

Yes. PoorMonger Feb 2018 #3

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)

1. Kompromat?

Reply to shraby (Original post)

Wed Feb 14, 2018, 03:08 PM

Feb 2018

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

2. I like how your mind works, I hadn't thought of this.

Reply to shraby (Original post)

Wed Feb 14, 2018, 03:18 PM

Feb 2018

PoorMonger

(844 posts)

3. Yes.

Reply to shraby (Original post)

Wed Feb 14, 2018, 03:30 PM

Feb 2018

I thought of this too. Maybe not as direct blackmail ; but in the same way that organized crime functions on a system of secrets kept by one and all and the higher up the ladder you go the darker the secrets tend to be.

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