Are the elites blackmailing Trump now?

You are the one talking about these elites. I’m just curious who that is, I thought you might know since you brought them up.

Maybe you should start off your investigation on spec, so we can pay you after we think you’ve come up with something good.

Well, there’s the confession. Il Douche has already admitted total innocence.

Who are the unknown secretive elites who are blackmailing Trump? Who are they?

If we knew who they were, it wouldn’t be a secret, now would it? The Illuminati is just a front for the real conspiracy, I dare not say more.

In February 2018, Mueller’s team issued indictments of 13 individuals, mostly Russians. They were charged with conspiracy in an attempt to impair enforcement of election law, wire fraud and bank fraud. Some of these Russians have come into contact with Trump officials, though so far there are no allegations that any American was a knowing participant in law breaking. What Mueller's Indictment Reveals - The Atlantic

American patriots support attempts to punish those who break our laws and attempt to subvert our 220 year experiment with democracy. The continuing investigation may indeed uncover illegalities within the Trump campaign: upthread I documented that Trump campaign officials (specifically Donald Trump Jr) were positively eager to collude. The Feb 2018 indictments were but one thread, one accomplishment of the Mueller team celebrated by patriots across America. Further investigation should uncover the extent and depth of the 2016 Russian attacks and their consequences.

Congratulations. You’ve fallen for their ruse.

Nikki R. Haley, the US’s Ambassador to the UN, announced expanded sanctions on Russia on Sunday. Trump rolled back that proposal today. Trump seems to have a policy on Russia that nobody else in his administration or in Congress supports.

That’s pretty unusual. Lots of people in Washington support TPP. Lots of people oppose it. So it’s understandable that a hypothetical dimwitted President might take both sides of that issue, if he was easily swayed by the last person he spoke to.

But basically nobody cuddles up to Putin like Trump does. Well, I suppose Manafort did as well, but he’s no longer a governmental employee and is under indictment. Basically Donald Trump is Putin’s protector in DC.

The fundamentals follow: given Trump’s business adventures what are the odds that he wouldn’t be noticed by a half-way competent Russian intelligence service? Low. If Russian intelligence conducted routine forms of entrapment and tradecraft, what are the odds that Trump would be prudent enough not to fall for it and smart enough to inform the FBI? Fairly low I say. Trump has his skillset, but well-tuned discretion isn’t part of it.

I think Trump’s nature makes him somewhat impervious to bribery and blackmail. You can’t successfully bribe someone that has no capacity for gratitude and you can’t successfully blackmail someone that has no capacity for shame.

It doesn’t mean that no ones tried, though.

Well, Putin certainly has some form of leverage on Trump, in any event.

Maybe he’s a victim of latent homosexuality, and all that grabbing random nookie, all that fitful and desperate womanizing is all about denial. Like that famous racehorse, served as stud for years, and when he died, they did an autopsy and discovered he was totally gay.

Black capsule. Only answer.

Upon review, the allegations do not explicitly state that the “golden showers” prostitutes were female… a tape of Trump playing cross-the-streams with Muscovite leather daddies might actually shake the resolve of two or three of his weaker-minded zealots.

The substantial payoffs to Stormy and others, and the machinations to keep the story out of the press dating from at least 2011 show definitively that Trump is susceptible to blackmail.

Before the Stormy tale broke, that was a reasonable comment regarding the Steele dossier. That Trump is indeed vulnerable to blackmail is psychologically interesting. I either had or at least wondered about your take before Stormy came forward.

Trump has no policy beliefs, no ethical values, and no practical knowledge of any kind to support any values or beliefs. He constantly changes positions, sometimes while speaking in public without having to take another breath. Why would you think that his having changes positions on this would imply blackmail?

Not to mention that “changing” positions has almost no meaning for someone who doesn’t really have any positions in the first place.

He has two constant positions:

  1. What’s in it for me?

  2. Don’t piss off Vlad.

“Substantial” according to whose definition of the term?

Trump just came out against the TPP on twitter, 5 days after saying he might rejoin it. Not especially surprising. x.com

Mine of course.

More seriously, Trump is a cheapskate: he appears to have reimbursed Cohen out of campaign funds for example. Or not. While he promised $100 million to his campaign, he didn’t exactly follow through with that.

So yeah, I’d say $130,000 for each bimbo isn’t chump change, even for Trump. And we don’t know how many recipients are involved.

Having a plank changed in the Republican Party platform that might be viewed as belligerent toward Russia by Russia.
Delaying Congressionally-approved sanctions by eight months on the transparent excuse that ‘they’re not needed.’ (I expect that was enough time for those Russian plutocrats to transfer their money to overseas accounts.)
Nearly constant praise of Putin…even when he criticizes Russia as a nation, he never says anything negative about Putin.
Giving top secret information to Russian contacts. For literally anyone else, that would be called espionage.
Numerous ties to Russians, including highly questionable meetings during and after the campaign.

Need I go on?