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Vladimir Putin has something on Donald Trump: Ambassador Sherman says the Kremlin must have kompromatFormer Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman concluded on Monday that Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin must have something on President Donald Trump.
We havent had to get troops out like this since the fall of Saigon, Sherman replied. This is going to be very, very difficult.
The president has basically handed the country back over to Assad, to Putin and to Iran and to ISIS, explained.
I guess well continue to be asking this question for a long time, but why does he want to do these things for Vladimir Putin? ODonnell asked.
This is the more than $64 million question. Maybe this is the $10 billion question if thats what Donald Trump is really worth though I doubt it, Sherman replied.
Clearly he has business interests. Clearly Putin has something on Donald Trump, she said.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/vladimir-putin-has-something-on-donald-trump-ambassador-sherman-says-the-kremlin-must-have-kompromat/
I have been saying this for years to my friends. The second thing I have been saying for years is, something happened at the 2016 GOP convention between Russian spies and the GOP leadership. Did McConnell want to hang onto power so bad that he sold the country out to Putin and Moscow too????? McConnell knew Hillary Clinton would win and perhaps the GOP lose the senate too. Did he make a deal with the Russian Ambassador / spymaster at the 2016 GOP convention to steal elections throughout the USA???????
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)murielm99
(30,745 posts)We could laugh off pee pee. It is treason.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)smb
(3,473 posts)My guess is they have tapes of him diddling minors on Epstein's island.
Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)Snuff. There I said it.
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)Venn diagram: minor/snuff.
Botany
(70,516 posts)This is all part of the biggest criminal operation in history.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)leanforward
(1,076 posts)Finally. To me its as plain as day. But, what. Erdogan is holding the towers. Putin is money laundering and other stuff.
corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)and I thank you for your prescience. Now, let's all hope that, when it comes to light, it peels off even more of his blind and deaf base.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)investigating???????
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)into when embedded with. Mueller probe, we dont knowand IC no longer reporting to house
intelligence.
CIA? If anything had been going on there, I think Pompeo would have put the kabosh.
I wonder to what extent FBI and CIA have been infiltrated by Russia-compromised people or
actual Russian spies. After all. they are here.
Lonestarblue
(10,011 posts)After the breakup of the USSR, Russian oligarchs essentially stole billions by privatizing state-owned businesses. They needed a way to make their black-market money legal, and real estate is a common means. A Russian paid Trump far more for a Florida home than it was worth. Why? If I recall correctly, the buyer never lived in it. Trump was in his fifth (or was it sixth) bankruptcy and no US bank would bail him out. Yet after visits to Russia and Deutsche Bank loans, he becomes a billionaire.
Putins kompromat on Trump is most likely financial illegalities. As a former KGB agent, hes experienced in manipulating people, and Im sure greedy Trump has been very easy to manipulate. Just wave a few millions in front of him.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)While Putin may have evidence of sex crimes, too, the money laundering and ties to the Russian mafia are at the heart of this.
yonder
(9,667 posts)someone else really, REALLY doesn't want that cat out of the bag.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)and hes ready to spill.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)... and when he blocked the Executive Branch of government from informing state governments that a foreign government was attacking the US election.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)and it probably isn't "kompromat" in the form oof a video of Trump with prostitutes or similar. Putin has Trump's balls in his pocket because Russian-backed loans and Russian oligarch money have been propping up Trump's business for years. This is also why Trump doesn't want the details of his finances to come out: because of the degree to which he is beholden to and therefore compromised by dependence on Putin and various unsavoury Russians etc.
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)Anything Russia has that they can hold over your head and extort you with is kompromat. There are many categories.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)He will cut his own throat. The US will never allow Russian money again. And if any of the Russians implicated ever stepped foot in the country, they would be arrested.
I think money laundering has and is probably happening. But I wonder if it is drug related or sex trafficking related. There has to be something more to it. And I would think there are videos.
Something embarrassing. Trump hates to be embarrassed. Money laundering wouldn't embarrass him. He would deny it all day long. But something on video that he can't explain away....That is what Trump fears.
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)It's just hard to prove violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
But Putin has SO much on Trump's money laundering he can cherry pick just one or two cases out of the bin and send Trump to prison while only slightly inconveniencing one oligarch.
The worst the oligarch would suffer is no longer being able to travel to a country the U.S. has an extradition treaty with. Big deal, there are lots of countries and lots of Trump-like crooks out there selling real estate. The rest of Russia's dirty business would continue on apace. Us permanently locking out all Russian business and money? No way. One word: Republicans.
And Putin has over 100 oligarchs dependent on him. Damaging one guy a bit isn't a problem for him.
I think what Trump fears most is that.
But yeah, we know he's committed more than a few sex crimes, too. He's vulnerable on trafficking through his "modeling" agency. He's vulnerable on fraud for how he ran the beauty pageants, trading sexual favors for himself and his sons for success (see "The Trump Rule" he imposed). He's vulnerable on rape, and statutory rape (see the 2016 federal suit filed by an ex Epstein girl).
I'll be happy to see him locked up for any of it.
Most likely, tho, is money laundering.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to go to prison but he won't. We don't put ex-presidents in prison. He might have to agree to a hefty penalty.
One thing that would embarrass Trump would be proof that Hillary beat him but Putin hacked the election and changed votes.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)Trump insults everyone but he has never had any thing bad to say about Putin
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)It is probably no more complicated than that.
At the most basic level Trump wants three things: money, sex, and praise.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I'm betting at least some of it has something to do with trafficking underage girls for sex purposes, and quite possibly, some of it for his own use. Some of them of them would be in the pee tape, which I strongly suspect is quite real, and just a footnote in all of his other nefarious activities. I wouldn't be surprised if he's doing Ivanka, too. No doubt there's a ton of money laundering involved, as well.
SuprstitionAintthWay
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Ivanka and DJTJ getting licenses or whatever the term is, in China, for operating escort and masseuse services.
Epstein.
The woman who filed a 2016 federal lawsuit against Trump for having raped her in the 1990s at age 13 at an Epstein event. But who then withdrew the lawsuit in fear for her life under an avalanche of death threats. (Death threats used to be one of Michael Cohen's specialties for Trump.)
He is a serial rapist, we know this from at least Ivanna and the columnist in the 1990s.
We know how impulsive, reckless, and stupid he is. He had to have been child's play for Putin to get sexual kompromat on.
In addition to the mountain of money laundering kompromat.
So yes, it would shock me if Putin DIDN'T have a lot if dirt on Trump in this area, in addition to all the financial crimes.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)KT2000
(20,583 posts)I believe Putin offered to make rump one of the richest men in the world - think oligarch. He has no shame but he does have the need to win and humiliate others. Wealth is the only thing that has meaning for him.