Bombshell report: new details about Trump's Oval Office meeting with Russians after he fired Comey

[workinclasszero]

Bombshell report reveals new details about Trump's Oval Office meeting with Russians after he fired Comey
Eliza Relman 3h
President Donald Trump infuriated the US and Israeli intelligence communities when he disclosed details of a highly classified Israeli operation to Russian officials earlier this year.

Vanity Fair reported on Thursday that a top US official told the Israelis in January that Russia had "leverages of pressure" over Trump.

President Donald Trump sparked widespread concern within the US and Israeli intelligence communities earlier this year when he disclosed details of a highly classified Israeli operation to Russian officials, according to a new Vanity Fair report.

The Washington Post first reported in May that Trump told Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and ambassador to the US at the time, Sergey Kislyak, about the terrorist group ISIS's work to develop a laptop bomb that could pass through airport security undetected — information Trump had received from Israeli intelligence officials.

The information was highly classified and had not been disclosed even to close American allies.

Vanity Fair reported on Wednesday that a top American spy told Israeli intelligence officials during a meeting at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, a few weeks before Trump's inauguration that US intelligence believed Russian President Vladimir Putin had "leverages of pressure" over Trump.

The report said that American official warned that information provided to the White House could be leaked to the Russians and, therefore, eventually to their ally Iran, Israel's greatest adversary.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bombshell-report-trump-oval-office-meeting-russians-comey-2017-11

[Irish_Dem]

1. "Leverages of pressure." And what might those be? nt

[workinclasszero]

4. Pee pee tapes

and worse.

Just guessing.

[Irish_Dem]

5. More sex tapes, or money issues? Trump is being blackmailed by Putin.

Wonder with what.

[workinclasszero]

6. Trump has been a Russian asset for years apparently

And now he squats in the white house telling Putin every last secret this country has.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Putin has used carrot and stick I think. Promised Trump he too can become one of the world's richest

men if he follows Putin's lead. Trump will do anything for the right price.

[bettyellen]

14. And the stick is that he could get hundreds of Russians to pull their investments with Trump

He could do it all at once and send him into bankruptcy.

[Irish_Dem]

15. You nailed it Betty. Trump is a house of cards, wouldn't take much to blow it down.

This is the leverage Putin has on Trump, exactly.

[bettyellen]

16. Trump thinks he is above the law, and could legally survive all this....but $$ matters to him

[Irish_Dem]

17. I agree totally, he has always gotten out of everything and thinks he can now.

He doesn't really care about being president, he just wants money and power.

[bettyellen]

18. He'll be happy enough if he can pardon his family and screw everyone else - leaving them to pick up

The pieces and serve time. I hope Flynn knows that.

[Irish_Dem]

19. That will be the deal they cut with him, immunity for him and his spawn. And some money

arrangements. He will have to have a face saving out. At everyone else's expense.

Yes Flynn should be aware of all of this or he is an idiot.

[murielm99]

20. Let him save face if it saves the country

and the world.

Just make sure he becomes the pariah that Nixon became. Every time someone interviews him or tries to keep him in the news, raise holy hell about it. Silence that fucker!

[tomp]

23. No outs. Full prosecution, full jail time, full fines......

...for the full group. We need to finally learn the lessons of Nixon and Bush/Cheney, inc. All this corruption has to be out on the table for justice to be done, for the people to learn, and for the country to be righted. These people deserve no quarter privilege. Letting them off the hook in any way is actually counterproductive.

[Irish_Dem]

25. That is my strong wish too. But I don't see it happening.

One, Washington insiders do not want to send a sitting president to jail.
Two, Trump will be quite dangerous, and needs to be handled carefully.
Three, his insane base will be dangerous.

I think it will unfold along the lines of Nixon's exit.

[tomp]

28. OK, here goes...

1) fuck the insiders. They are the problem not the solution. We have to fight them.

2) if the insiders don't just take him out we have to fight them.

3) if the fascists rise up, well.....I think you see where I'm going with this.

The corporate state is not capable of giving justice at this point. Strategies have to change, rules have to change.

[Irish_Dem]

30. I agree with everything you say, but Trump will be quite dangerous when cornered.

He is going to have to be managed carefully.

Frankly I think he should be tried and hung for treason, but it won't happen.

[jrthin]

26. Agreed. Each time we let these powerful shits off,

WE set bad precedents.

[renate]

29. I feel silly now for assuming it was all about the pee tape! I think you're right!

There was a time, oh so many years ago it seems, when it was reasonable to assume that holding a pee tape over Trump's head would be enough for Putin to get him to do his bidding. But now, release of that tape would be as shocking as any other Friday.

So yes, I think you're right. Pee tape, shmee tape. Putin could bankrupt Trump with a word. That's his leverage. It's all crystal clear now.

[Irish_Dem]

32. Yes I think we have gone way beyond sex tapes. No one seems to care about them anyway.

It is the money, period.
Good discussion, we got the answer to the leverage question.

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. The word espionage is being used more widely, now.

I think it was Vanity Fair which just recently reported Trump's involvement with Russia going back to 1986.

[lagomorph777]

11. Money, sex, political favors. The lot. Trump is a kompromat factory.

[Irish_Dem]

12. I don't know how someone is going to write a book one day. So much crap to cover.

No one will believe it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Seven volume set. . . . nt

[Irish_Dem]

24. At least, two volumes needed just for the money laundering schemes

going on for decades.

[workinclasszero]

27. Ain't that the truth!

A kompromat cornucopia of evil!

[Irish_Dem]

31. There is the working title of the Trump story. :) nt

[workinclasszero]

34. LOL :D

Works for me!

[Takket]

9. debt, loans, the fact Russia propped up this failed businessman

for years and years so he could keep showing his pathetic family the sweet life.... and hide from them that he a clueless idiot......... and now it is time to pay the piper.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yep, money and sex. He has been on the Russian payroll for a long time.

And it was time to pay back the loans.

[unblock]

33. Not even any need to speculate. He has business interests in russia

They likely have kompromat as well, but no need to speculate.

They can helps or hinder his business interests. That alone is motive for him to do things contrary to the nation's interest.

[Irish_Dem]

35. Yep, they can totally bankrupt him in 24 hours. That is what is scaring him.

Treason and hurting the US matters not a whit to him.

[librechik]

2. thanks again to the reporters at Vanity Fair--you are our warriors

since our elected Reps are neutralized.

[BootinUp]

3. No need for elaborate mole hunts anymore!

[Angry Dragon]

8. TRAITOR IN CHIEF

[Takket]

13. how could he not be impeached over this?

[SergeStorms]

21. You're kidding, right?

With a Republican controlled Congress, nothing will ever come of this. The Republicans have sent every message in the world that it's party over politics as far as they're concerned, and they'd never impeach Trump, no matter what he did.

If, after the mid-terms, and if Democrats take back both Houses of Congress, and if Trump is still in the Oval Office, then there's an avenue to impeach the Orange Shit Cannon. As it stands right now, it'll never happen.