Let’s not get crazy. Trump has been and always will be Putin’s puppet. Since Trump had no qualms about banging Stormy Daniels and propositioning other porn stars, there is no reason to believe that he refused the Russian hookers that were offered for his Moscow hotel room. Putin has the whole hotel room episode on hi-def video ready to be released if Trump steps out of line.
^Yep. Just the other day, I saw one of those Internet slideshows titled Putin’s most expensive possessions. Since it required “click to see next page” and took forever to load here, I didn’t bother to go through it. I still wonder, though, where Trump appeared on that list.
Trump: “Eh, they know I banged Stormy and I’m still President. Bring it on, Vlad! They really don’t care!”
“Donald! Putin’s on the line… he says that he’s in favor of strict US gun control. No, he says he doesn’t know the NRA’s phone number.”
But, seriously… what happens when Dotard thinks Putin is no longer his loyal friend? What happens when the hold, if it exists, Putin has on Donald wanes?
That might be the real impact this Stormy news will have on DJT: “I’ve survived another sex scandal, what do I care about the piss tape?”
Yes, there’s a problem with threatening to trash Trump’s reputation; it’s already pretty low.
However I don’t think Putin’s goal was to control the American government. Let’s face it, Trump is too incompetent to make a good tool. What Putin wanted was a weak and confused American government that isn’t capable of effectively countering Russia. Trump’s delivered that. And if it ever looks like Trump is pulling his act together and might stand up to Russia, Putin can release the tapes and shut down the Trump administration with a major sex scandal.
May?
I’m betting that if Putin has this “loaded gun” he’s already realized that it is loaded with blanks. What use is blackmail material if neither Trump nor his supporters care at all?
Speaking of Hawking - Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-TX), come on down!
Man, he must be a blast at funerals.
It’s one thing to hear Trump is cheating on his wife, it’s another to see a humiliating video played on an endless loop on CNN. Stormy said he likes to be spanked so maybe he likes to be pissed on too. Imagine a naked, fat, bald (hair messed up) Trump with tiny hands and tiny other thing on full display getting spanked and pissed on. Once you see it, you won’t be able to unsee it. It would damage his brand and repetition as low as they are already.
Shame on you for planting that mental image.
Not all, but a large contingent of American Christian fundies are gleeful at the thought that not only will they be in heaven while the Godless heathens are not, they’ll get ringside seats to point and laugh at the latters’ eternal torture.
As an Assistant (to the) Minister, I’d just like to point one thing out to those “Fundies”:
That is seriously fucked up. Your politics and your faith are making you bend your brain in ways no human should.
Get therapy, in this life. Maybe from an Atheist.
I fully believe the Russians have a video. I have heard that some American intelligence agents have seen it - but they couldn’t make a positive identification of the man involved.
Is the video real? Maybe. Maybe not. The Russians did set up a circumstance that makes the theory that they have a video plausible. Trump stayed in that hotel. Someone allegedly offered to send up 5 women -via Schiller- and Schiller claims he refused. Maybe that’s true. Maybe not. Maybe Trump got tweaked that Schiller spoke for him and overrode his request. Maybe not. Maybe 5 full-bladdered hookers showed up at his suite despite the refusal. Maybe not.
But this is Trump and Putin. The truth doesn’t matter. Because Russia has set up this entire scenario to make the idea that this tape exists possible. If they have a video that may be faked but maybe not, it is still compromising material.
Russia has done this before. By this, I mean “released a clandestinely filmed sex tape that the star participant claimed was a fake. And Russia’s response was “Maybe it’s him. Maybe not. It kind of looks like him, though.”
So I think they’ll leak 
the tape at some point. And this is why the Trump Administration is being stupid and short-sighted by ignoring the continuing Russia threat to our political system. Because these Stupid Watergate players are too dumb to see that Russia didn’t get their money’s worth when they decided to promote Trump. So they might start playing for the other team. By dropping a pee tape in October, possibly.
Why do you think another sex scandal would shut down this administration?
The GOP and his base are literally standing by the guy through TREASON. They’ve ignored sex scandals about Trump before and are ignoring the current one.
Why would another matter?
The sheer pettiness of these people is almost amusing.
Gaddafi used his control of puny Libya to amass a fortune fifty times larger than Trump’s. Even the Duvalier family of impoverished Haiti was about as rich as the Trumps. Stalin, Mao, the man with the moustache — they all succeeded in having profound effects. Even GWB-Cheney made many billions for their partners at Carlyle Group or Halliburton.
But the Trump Administration — “greatest bestest ever” — is content to steal plane rides or dining sets from taxpayers. Trump seems happy just that he can jack up prices at Mar-a-Lago and have top White House aides go on TV to pimp Ivanka’s made-in-Bangladesh shoes.
I’m sure many American billionaires will become many billions richer due to Trump’s policies, but the Orange Buffoon himself seems content to overcharge the Secret Service and prowl around Korea hoping Kim Jung-un will lend him a teenager to rape. So pathetic.
My God.
Any deity worth worshipping would not hold my lack of belief against me in the balance of what good I may have done during my life.
But not too much. In this case a grainy inconclusive video would be excellent for their strategy since it would cause even more discord than a clear one.
Jesus. Do you need help with how to use SPOILER tag?
Sorry, I was trying to illustrate how a sex tape could be a big deal but didn’t realize my verbal description needed an NC-17 rating. 