BBC article: corroboration of Trump tapes

[someoneyouknow]

A reporter for the BBC has been following the trail of the Trump tapes since last August. During that time he has found corroboration the tapes, plural, most likely exist. From the article:

And the former MI6 agent is not the only source for the claim about Russian kompromat on the president-elect. Back in August, a retired spy told me he had been informed of its existence by "the head of an East European intelligence agency".

Later, I used an intermediary to pass some questions to active duty CIA officers dealing with the case file - they would not speak to me directly. I got a message back that there was "more than one tape", "audio and video", on "more than one date", in "more than one place" - in the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow and also in St Petersburg - and that the material was "of a sexual nature".

The claims of Russian kompromat on Mr Trump were "credible", the CIA believed. That is why - according to the New York Times and Washington Post - these claims ended up on President Barack Obama's desk last week, a briefing document also given to Congressional leaders and to Mr Trump himself.

Mr Trump did visit Moscow in November 2013, the date the main tape is supposed to have been made. There is TV footage of him at the Miss Universe contest. Any visitor to a grand hotel in Moscow would be wise to assume that their room comes equipped with hidden cameras and microphones as well as a mini-bar.

At his news conference, Mr Trump said he warned his staff when they travelled: "Be very careful, because in your hotel rooms and no matter where you go you're going to probably have cameras." So the Russian security services have made obtaining kompromat an art form.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38589427

 

[Hard_Rom]

Ivan even bugs the rooms of visiting hockey teams. T-Rump would be a prime target. I'm sure the honey trap escorts would be on the house.

Go perv out at a beauty contest then get a couple of hookers. Russkies would me by the short and curlies!

 

[Iceprincess12]

Big Black Cock hardly seems appropriate in this forum. I prefer medium size, especially since the new medium is the old large. Plenty big enough, no matter what the job.

I think Trump dvd or even a usb stick is more likely.

Tape of the double sided kind is another matter. His performance is equal, no matter which side he is on.

 

[srgreene]

It is certainly chilling to think of Russia having kompromat on Trump that could make him open to blackmail. I have no doubt the FSB has a file on him, but does it contain compromising information of a financial or sexual nature? At this point, I think we have to give Trump the benefit of any doubt.

Trump has selected strong willed people for senior national defense positions, easing my concerns about his susceptibility to blackmail. Rex Tillerson or Gen. Mattis are simply not the type of people to be cowed by Trump and they are not in his debt. Neither man is a "creatures of politics" and I think neither of them needs the positions for which they've been nominated. They would have no problem standing up to Trump, even at the risk of their positions.

Moreover, there is a certain tension between Trump and the Republican leadership on the Hill. If, say, Tillerson and Mattis made public their concern that Trump was not acting in the interests of the United States, Ryan and Co. would have little hesitation about impeaching him. I think Ryan, for one, would clearly have preferred Pence to Trump.

Accordingly, unless there is some damaging new information about Trump, I consider the concerns about kompromat to be largely political theater.

 

[srgreene]

Big Black Cock hardly seems appropriate in this forum. I prefer medium size, especially since the new medium is the old large. Plenty big enough, no matter what the job.

I think Trump dvd or even a usb stick is more likely.

Tape of the double sided kind is another matter. His performance is equal, no matter which side he is on.

You're right, sweetie, it's not relevant.

 

[Dream_Operator]

Even if these unverified and largely dismissed reports were true, would Trump even care?

He would wear this as a badge of honor and share a laugh with Putin.

 

[srgreene]

Even if these unverified and largely dismissed reports were true, would Trump even care? He would wear this as a badge of honor and share a laugh with Putin.

Congress might care.

 

[Dream_Operator]

Congress might care.

So what if they care?

Loretta Lynch had a secret meeting with Bill Clinton, the husband of the accused, and himself, a person of interest in another FBI investigation.

When exposed about the illegal, clandestine, prearranged meeting, they claimed they talked about "golf and grand kids".

LOL. It doesn't get more corrupt than that.

 

[someoneyouknow]

So what if they care?

Loretta Lynch had a secret meeting with Bill Clinton, the husband of the accused, and himself, a person of interest in another FBI investigation.

When exposed about the illegal, clandestine, prearranged meeting, they claimed they talked about "golf and grand kids".

LOL. It doesn't get more corrupt than that.

There was nothing illegal about the meeting. Only in your mind. Ill-advised, certainly, but not illegal.

Prearranged? One doesn't simply walk in to the office of the head of a government agency and say, "I'm here." Meetings with them are prearranged as is done everywhere.

But then, it wasn't prearranged, was it? Nope, just more lies. They met on the tarmac at Phoenix and Bill walked on to her plane when he realized they were at the same airport.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/politics/bill-clinton-loretta-lynch/index.html

Clandestine? Did they meet under the cover of darkness in some smoke-filled backroom of a bar? The word you're looking for is privately as in, they met in private, away from reporters.

As to Congress caring, it's called impeachment and every day it's looking more and more likely for the Russian puppet.

 

[Dream_Operator]

There was nothing illegal about the meeting. Only in your mind. Ill-advised, certainly, but not illegal.

Um, yes, a prosecutor meeting secretively with the accused is definitely illegal and unethical.

How could it not be?

 

[phrodeau]

Um, yes, a prosecutor meeting secretively with the accused is definitely illegal and unethical.

How could it not be?

Because America, land of the Free.

 

[srgreene]

So what if they care?

Congress could impeach and convict him of "high crimes and misdemeanors", thereby removing him from office.

I don't think the Republican Congress will be nearly as deferential to Trump as Democratic Congresses were to Obama or Clinton. The Republican establishment would throw him under the bus in a New York minute.

 

[Dream_Operator]

Congress could impeach and convict him of "high crimes and misdemeanors", thereby removing him from office.

On what grounds?

Trump hasn't even taken office yet.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Um, yes, a prosecutor meeting secretively with the accused is definitely illegal and unethical.

How could it not be?

Again, it wasn't secret and it wasn't illegal, no matter how many lies you claim it is.

It was certainly ill-advised under the circumstances it was not, in any way, shape or form, illegal.

It couldn't have secret because there were about 30 people who saw it happen.

Now go back to your basement and think real hard what you're saying because if you truly believe it then Trump's pick for national security advisor could very well be in violation of the Logan Act for having secret talks with Russia over several days, including on December 29th when more sanctions were placed on Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

Is that the route you want to take?

 

[phrodeau]

On what grounds?

Trump hasn't even taken office yet.

He sure acts like someone in office.