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Just throwing that out there - that would be the one thing that would be the deal breaker with his disciples...
Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them
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In April last year, the veteran Soviet dissident, a onetime confidant of Margaret Thatcher, finally found out what was going on: The Crown Prosecution Service announced that he faced five charges of making indecent images of children, five charges of possession of indecent images of children and one charge of possession of a prohibited image.
The case was supposed to go to court in May in Cambridge but, after Mr. Bukovsky, 73, entered a not-guilty plea it was delayed until Dec. 12. This followed a prosecution request for more time to review an independent forensic report on what had been found on Mr. Bukovskys computers and how an unidentified third party had probably put it there.
The whole affair is Kafkaesque, Mr. Bukovsky said in an interview. You not only have to prove you are not guilty but that you are innocent. He insisted that he was the victim of a new and particularly noxious form of an old K.G.B. dirty trick known as kompromat, the fabrication and planting of compromising or illegal material.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/europe/vladimir-putin-russia-fake-news-hacking-cybersecurity.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)Which isn't to say he does not enjoy kiddie porn (his comments about young girls make you wonder), but I don't think they need to plant any fake dirt on him. There's bound to be real dirt out there - involvement with the mob, for example. I have no doubt Trump is about as crooked as they come and is capable of any kind of crime to make a buck and protect his brand - who knows whether he's even used mob goons to get people killed? These days computer forensics can determine whether something has been planted. If the Russians are blackmailing Trump it's for something he really did.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Ilsa
(61,710 posts)who he is, how he lives, how he does business, and how he treats people for years. Past is prologue.
Greybnk48
(10,180 posts)on him. No need to make anything up.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)that something like this could be occurring. They feel the Kremlin has to have criminal-level dirt on Trump, the question being if they're using it.
Given the reported use of this porn technique, though, I wouldn't rule it out more than...90% or so? The outstanding underage rape charge brought against Trump would make manufactured evidence of more crimes that much more potentially damaging. And charges of molesting children might actually, finally, be too much for followers who have no problem with massive swindling, massive corruption, fascination with nuclear destruction, and sexual preying on women.
Btw, despite that charge, Trump's lifelong pattern is for young, beautiful women--and attempted finger rape of mature attractive women--but not for children.
WhiteTara
(29,730 posts)he is an alleged child rapist and taking pictures would not be a stretch for the POS
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)unblock
(52,440 posts)He probably thinks he can "win" even if someone has blatantly incriminating video star toxic trump himself.
I think he's easy led by the thought of gold, though.
LonePirate
(13,437 posts)If Putin has pictures of him in bed with a black or Hispanic transsexual, then anything is possible.
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)the Fucktrumpet is dominant. They just don't want to see him submitting to a black or hispanic transsexual.
radical noodle
(8,016 posts)That's my motto with Trump... Follow the money. But anything is possible at this point.
hatrack
(59,600 posts)And Trump, stupid, shitbird hornweasel that he is, "partook", and the videos are securely in Putin's paws, waiting for the right moment for release.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/russian-intelligence-trump-moscow
moondust
(20,019 posts)(Veteran spy) claimed that Russian intelligence had "compromised" Trump during his visits to Moscow and could "blackmail him."
ETA: Possible that both Trump and Putin know that whatever it is he's holding is so disgusting and/or criminal that if Putin were to release it it would be the end of Donald J. Trump. That leaves Trump with no choice but to follow Putin's orders.
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how long has he lived in the tower? how much did he (over)pay for his unit? whose money was it?
no way putin would hang out what they have hung out for someone they hoped would be nice to have around. they own him.
DoctorMyEyes
(1,551 posts)Trump is an NPD and whenever I thought about whether they had a tape of underage girls, live boys or even dead girls I couldn't see Trump being phased by it. But... If he was desperate for money/investment and no banks were touching him - back against the wall... I can see Putin forcing him to suck him off in return for his help. That's probably why Trump, in order to protect his own ego, thinks he and Putin are some sort of "partners" in this world domination game. He can't think of himself as weak or a puppet. And he absolutely DOES NOT want to be humiliated. Or have his financial failure revealed. (Daddy issues too!)
My two cents.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)brooklynite
(94,913 posts)Aristus
(66,509 posts)Trump's supporters would just love him all the more if they thought he was a child-porn perv.
They're that twisted...
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)The simplest explanation. He never showed his tax returns. He probably owes the Russians billions of dollars. Digging too deeply into his records would reveal all of his foreign entanglements and how deeply he owes so much to them.
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)In all the security briefings I attended, we learned the KGB and GRU had three main ways to blackmail someone into becoming an agent: money, drugs and sex.
I put them in that order for a good reason.
My money is on the SVR using Trump's money problems to control him. Since no US bank will deal with him, he's been funding through foreign banks for quite some time. No bank is going to lend Donald Trump enough money to erect a skyscraper without knowing how likely they are to get it back - and the one thing Trump is most apoplectic about is anyone knowing just how little money he really has. Put 'em together and it's pretty clear: they can use Trump's fear of embarrassment over the fact he has no cash to drag him around by the nose.
Now let's talk drugs. If Donald Trump is NOT a tweaker he's doing a damn good imitation of one. Where's he getting the drugs? Possibly the only thing Trump is more scared of than the American people finding out he's got less than a month's money on hand, is them learning the names of his drug suppliers and what drugs he likes to take.
Sex? No. There are two things everyone should be able to agree on about Trump: he is a sexual satyr and he has control of the media. Let's throw a wild supposition out there: the SVR has video of him receiving gay sex. If they drop this video on the news media, within 12 hours we'll "know" Hillary built this video all by her lonesome just to destroy Trump.