Why aren't alarms going off? Why has it been allowed to progress? Where is the deeper investigation of these relationships and how deep the compromise might have run. This seems like another fun story about our sleaze bag president. But it's more than that.
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It is a story of how foreign actors (& perhaps how domestic actors) gain leverage over the president. Consider this for a moment: If the Steele dossier had contained speculation that the president & his family were giving access to a Chinese woman who runs a string of sex spas..
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...in Florida, where rich, powerful friends of the president were getting sexual services would it have been any less shocking or disturbing than stories about golden showers w/Russian hookers? In fact, given that it continued long after Trump became president, it would be worse.
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Add to that the fact that the Chinese president is supposed to be coming for a summit with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the site of the influence selling operation of this Chinese madam/Trump crony/GOP donor, and it all makes for quite the tableau doesn't it?
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This story will, we can be certain, contain more revelations. But it is not just a shocker in its own right. It is a symptom of one of the many serious ailments with which Trump and his presidency suffer. His sordid predilections have opened him up to blackmail.
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Every foreign government knew that just as they knew they could buy his favor with deals and flattery. They knew it before he was elected and there is evidence to suggest that the intelligence community heard chatter to that effect.
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Trump has therefore been a national security liability and, to the extent he allowed himself to be manipulated by those who were willing to deal in this kind of leverage--like the Russians, the Saudis and others--he has put the US at risk and severely damaged the office he holds.
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p.s. I seemed to have missed the story that, apparently coincidentally, Xi yesterday cancelled the Mar-a-Lago Summit. I regret the oversight. Also the state of US-China trade relations.
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Recall the Steele dossier reported that some on the Trump campaign were happy to have Russia as bogeyman to mask greater corruption with China.
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This demands digging...and is probably not the only case of this sort of thing. (It also answers the question of why billionaires like Kraft were frequenting this particular strip mall massage parlor.)
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How do you blackmail this shameless, criminal gang? Especially when they have their own judges. Judges who retire from the SC on cue, judges whose debt is mysteriously repaid to replace him, judges who think a thug like Manafort is a fine fellow.
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Exactly! The only thing Trump is afraid of is everyone knowing he’s broke.
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You have to wonder how many of the people in the photos yesterday, & more not in photos, are being blackmail right now. Is Trump blackmailing some of the Fox news talking heads? Members of Congress? Is this why they will say or do anything to support him? Let's connect the dots.
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Start with Gaetz.
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Think about the possibility of massive video archives.
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Remember they said they have Bob Kraft on video and other "bigger" names were involved.
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“She said bigger”
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Given Cindy Yang’s presence at Mar-a-Lago, I really want to know how Kraft decided to frequent that particular “day spa.” And who else at Mar-a-Lago has done so after receiving the same recommendation?
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And who got filmed
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And who has the tapes now?
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The madam has the receipts, “believe me.” She has been parading her client roster via selfies for the last several days.
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