Meh. A pic of Trump fucking a goat will be dismissed as “fake news” and he’ll distract by signing an executive order preventing immigrants from celebrating Christmas, or something.
Or forcing them to.
Still, I hadn’t heard of Sergei Krirov, so looked him up, and although this Buzzfeed article unusually tries to make the sinister most of the unlikelihood of an alcoholic Russian security guard in his 60s falling over and cracking his head, the NYPD considered it natural causes.
Nor is it explained how his death affected the election that day unless Donald raced across town to commit a murder as he was being chosen as 45th President of the United States.
That reads as though it were written by Carl Kolchack.
The Russian mob has mastered the art of the hit.
As the last Star Wars film shows, it can all be faked. Video evidence that’s saved for later is no longer reliable.
If he has, he’s had a setback or two along the way. I have a story to tell about that but lack sufficient detail to relate it here.
So the fact that the evidence supports the allegation suggest to you that the allegation isn’t true? That’s not how evidence works.
I think your post does suggest another explanation for Trump’s behavior. Putin has got Trump in his pocket and both men are openly demonstrating this. Why? Because they know that people like you will refuse to accept the evidence if it doesn’t conform with what you want to believe.
Trump and Putin aren’t idiots. But they’re counting on their supporters to be idiots.
Putin, at any rate, is not an idiot.
First of all, I Occam-istically doubt the existence of the kompromat - the actions of Trump, his administration, and the legislative GOP are perfectly explainable without positing blackmail. (Stupidity, avarice, and amorality are sufficient.)
But let’s say it’s there. Trump says Fuck You Vladdie, and things go as you say in the OP:
I think the Russians would still come out ahead by releasing the material: they would have caused chaos in the US and damage to our reputation abroad. (Helping elect Trump already did this.) The old Eastern Bloc countries would be less eager to join western alliances and adopt democratic norms; their eyes would turn back to the east.
Foreign policy doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game, but it certainly can be played that way. Embarrassing the US would be a win for Putin even if he got no concessions out of Trump (or, later, Pence).
I do not understand how you could blackmail Trump. We all sort of expect he he has hookers and blow on speed-dial. I know I would.
Long ago he should have just told everyone to “Publish and be damned.” It works if he’s innocent, it works if he is guilty. He is president now. They cannot take that from him.
I’m thinking he meant the prostitutes were peeing *while *the Obamas slept in the bed. 
That’s just the titlating and sensational part.
If there are also illegal or at least unethical business dealings that they have documentation of, that may be much more damaging than some videos with prostitutes.
Do you really think that Trump broke no laws in his business dealings, do you really think that russia could not have access to evidence of that.
And then we get to go into more fun things like treason. His security advisor had to resign because he was verging on the line of being a traitor to the country, and that’s just what we caught them up to.
If the russians have recordings of trump or his team promising concessions to the russians in exchange for assistance in the election, even the republican party has got to ditch him at that point, and impeach him if he doesn’t resign.
I am not saying that I think it is highly probable that the russians have this type of blackmail, just saying, there’s alot more to blackmail than embarrassment.
How do you know Trump wouldn’t take that material, put it on Pay Per View and make even more money?
::d&r::