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50 Shades of Trump
President-Elect Donald Trump likes to be forced into a leather cat-suit, have a blow-up gag inserted into his mouth, be bound from head to toe, and get stuffed into a sleeping bag, which is then filled with strawberry jam and zipped closed. Still in the bag, he is rolled down a rocky hill into a pool of medium-rare Trump steaks. Extricated from the bag, he then likes to have Meryl Streep throw Trump Grill Taco Bowls at him while Rosie O’Donnell reads aloud select excerpts from 50 Shades of Grey and Mein Kampf.
Or not.
This, basically, is the reporting from BuzzFeed and CNN, which claims to have access to a report that Russia has a file on Trump that includes embarrassing information which can be used to blackmail him. According to the sites, Trump was made aware of the file during a briefing with intelligence agencies about Russia’s possible involvement in the election. To date, there is no evidence that Russia hacked the election.
And, to date, there is no evidence that the report from BuzzFeed has validity. (Evidence that CNN is a news organization is also disappearing quickly.) Trump denies all of it, accusing CNN of engaging in fake news:
FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
He continued on Twitter:
Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is “A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE.” Very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA – NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
It would not surprise me if Moscow had a file on Trump. Or on Hillary Clinton. Or President Obama or Charlie Sheen or anyone. Everyone has a file. It’s just, for most Americans, that file is held by the NSA.
Blackmail can always be an issue. A President, or any elected official, being compromised is always a risk. But to purposefully print a report of unverified claims is to willfully undermine that elected official. BuzzFeed isn’t a whistleblower here, they’re propagandists. Publishing this unverified report in this manner makes Bradley Manning look honorable by comparison.
Reince Priebus, who will serve as Chief of Staff in the Trump White House, told “Fox and Friends” that he was in the briefing Trump had with intel officials, and these allegations never came up:
Complete garbage. I was in the (intelligence) briefing too. And this salacious stuff, the first I heard of any of these things was when someone printed it off of BuzzFeed. The New York Times announced overnight they couldn’t even publish this stuff, because they couldn’t verify it and they don’t believe in it. This stuff is total garbage, and it’s not true.
He went on to say that this was not an intelligence document, but was “apparently produced by a retired agent somewhere in the world, (who) gets paid by people to put these reports together. It certainly isn’t true.” Even CNN admitted they can’t confirm the contents of the memo were discussed in the meeting.
While many focus on the sordid details, others question have emerged about how a memo like this came to exist. Who did it come from? Are intelligence agency heads, all out of jobs on January 20, sending a parting shot before they go? Is this just another attempt to delegitimize Trump? Is this the work of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy? Michael Moore? The Joos?
What if the whole thing is a hoax? Message board 4Chan says the rumor came from them, including the most incendiary sections about Trump and a liking of urination. Some are stating, with detailed proof, that this is actually fan fiction:
….a post on 4Chan now claims that the infamous “golden showers” scene in the unverified 35-page dossier, allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as “fanfiction”, then sent to Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election.
Less than 24 hours after it began, the story is seemingly falling apart. But the story never mattered; the narrative did. The purpose was to denigrate Trump, and further erode his reputation. It was reported, without proof, to continue the desired meme of Trump as some kind of Russian agent or operative or flunky or Manchurian candidate or add your delulded fantasy here.
And now that the lie has been exposed, Trump can get back to the things that matter. Someone grill up the steaks, and where’s Rosie?
Reposted from WIBC.com.
Published in Politics
Sometimes, it is a very fine line.
I have been on Ricochet for more than six years. When I started, the member feed had just been instituted. There was no such thing as private messaging. Many nice features members take for granted today did not exist.
At some point in the timeline, moderators came to be. And I was a member subject to their advice and intervention, just like you.
I’ve seen many moderator comments over the years that start out with the words “cut it out,” or the words “knock it off,” and since I’ve been a moderator for only about two months, I can be very sure that most of them weren’t written by me.
“Cut it out?” “Knock it off?”
Moderation? Or participation?
You tell me.
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For what it’s worth, the BBC claims it has a second source backing up Buzzfeed’s claims:
http://theweek.com/speedreads/672669/bbc-claims-second-source-backs-trump-dossier
Personally, I think it would be a good thing if proof got out that the Russians were scrutinizing Trump at least as hard as they were scrutinizing Hillary.
The problem of course is that it raises the question, “so why didn’t they release it to Wikileaks during the election?”
But then, there are various possible answers to that question:
The claim is that they have a tape where Trump says things that could embarrass him.
You mean, more embarrassing that the stuff he’s already said in public?
Considering the qualify of language that Trump’s voters have already been willing to forgive so far, how could such a tape possibly be worse?
Remember when Dean Kamen built up an avalanche of PR buzz that he was about to release a new technology that was going to revolutionize humanity and change everything as we know it, and then when the big day finally came it turned out to be … the Segway.
This “damning tape” story smells a lot like that. If it was really so damning, it would be public by now.
(And if it’s a sex tape, I think at this point people would be surprised if Trump hadn’t made a sex tape at some point in his life.)
It’s good to have wants.
So it turns out the 35 page report was merely part of an even longer document! Some highlights:
Anyone who can fill a pool with medium rare Trump steaks.
Wow! Well done, She! This fits right in with Tony’s cat suit. Better disconnect the sensor in the tail, though.
That’s the main reason I read your posts!
I practically live in the PIT and I have never owned nor worn a cat suit.
I, too, prefer to go au naturale.
I wish I could say the same thing. When I was very young (like 5 or 6) I loved my kitty-cat Halloween costume.
It wasn’t leather tho’…
In partial defense of She, the deadpan here went entirely over my head. My thought was that you were trying to defend Trump as opposed to snarking on the opening paragraph.
Obviously Katz got it wrong – it is Christie who gets the strawberry roll treatment.
If what you say is true, then I would expect a question on intent, and not a lecture and correction based on personality clash .
The comment, however one reads it, is within the CoC. No member was attacked in any way. It contained no offensive language. But , being a Rabble type, what do I know of the complexities of the CoC?.