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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne important part of #yellowwatergate being overlooked
is that the Russians did not have to blackmail Trump into doing what they wanted him to do because he was already doing what they wanted him to do:
"But the Russians, the operative says in the dossier, "promised not to use the 'kompromat' they hold on Trump as leverage, given high levels of voluntary cooperation forthcoming from his team." (from businessinsider) ...
Warpy
(111,261 posts)and the rest of the document will sink in a little later.
We know the Republicans would rather have Pence, but they considered him unelectable--which he was.
I don't expect Trump to last four years.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)marybourg
(12,631 posts)because he already knew what they had on him.
tableturner
(1,682 posts)The blackmail, whether passive or aggressive, had already started. He knew they had the goods on him only because they made sure that he knew.....thus by definition......that's blackmail!
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)to defeat domestic political foes that is really disturbing. Treasonous, even.
Guessing that no one here much cares who consenting adults pee on in the privacy of their Russian suite. But the jokes just write themselves! And it is a thing that is sooooo incredibly degrading to Trump. His whole brand is being the alpha male and shaming those sensitive PC snowflakes. The pee thing is gold if you want to insult him, make him look like a weak stream of old man piss to his base. And they are post-facts, so it doesn't matter if it is actually true. Hey, they wrote the rules, not me. I just play the game.
marybourg
(12,631 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)I just thought that line about not having to blackmail him was, well, funny, too. And i dont think he was being blackmailed, or probably even gives a shit about pissgate. I think it's always and only about money for him, in this case the billions he can smell in doing business with Putin & Russia. "Blackmail, hell, you dont have to blackmail me, we're all hoods in the same gang!"
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)Thanks Obama!
Skittles
(153,160 posts)but....but....but......HER EMAILS!
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)a couple of questions about peegate and he will blow his urine-colored top
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)implode, baby