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Spies Suspect Kremlin Is Pushing Dozens of Fake Trump Sex Tapes
If Trump engaged in recorded compromising sexual behavior that he desperately wants to keep hidden, what the Russian spies call kompromat, and Trump is aware of the possibility that both real and fake tapes are being peddled as this article alleges, this presents a serious problem for him. He has no way of knowing whether some of the recordings will be indisputably proved to be the real thing. He doesn’t know whether there are tapes of the behaviors that he considers the most damaging.
John Schindler, the author of this article, believes that even though Russia did not get the sanctions lifted when Trump was elected, it is still in their interest to keep him in office since as long as he’s president America will be in a state of chaos. They see this as being to their benefit. I totally agree: case in point, how Trump is allowing or directing Tillerson to decimate the Department of State.
It is a tried and true spy tactic to muddy the waters when there is something “out there” they want to hide. In this instance it would be genuine presidency-ending sex tapes. To do this they flood the market, so to speak, with fake tapes. This is what Schindler says has been happening.
Schindler believes Mueller already has some of the genuine tapes.
As many as a dozen intelligence services worldwide, on four continents, are in possession of some sort of “Trump tape” featuring sexual escapades of a controversial nature; in some cases, the women involved appear to be underage. Some of these tapes have been shared with the Mueller investigation.
In spite of this, Schindler is pessimistic about these tapes being used successfully against Trump:
It’s obvious to savvy Western counterspies that someone is spreading fake Trump tapes—not all of them high quality—to muddy the waters. The obvious suspect, of course, is the Kremlin. Since the Russians know all about President Trump’s decades of personal antics, including what kompromat exists on him, they appear to be pushing dubious and unverifiable tapes, some of them obviously fake, to create chaos and confusion.
It’s working, and in the current climate, it seems doubtful that any Trump tape can be verified sufficiently to have a mainstream journalistic outfit report its details. After all, with multiple fakes out there, any bona fide tape would require not just rock-solid technical authentication, but also firming up the exact place and date of the incident, plus confirmation from the girl(s) caught on camera too. That seems like an insurmountably high bar to clear at present.
The Weinstein Effect: I think there’s reason to be more than a little optimistic.
It’s hard to believe Trump would think he could easily, emphasis on easily, teflon his way though another sexual scandal the way he did when all the women claimed he sexual assaulted them, followed by the Access Hollywood recording. It’s possible that he will have a case of Weinstein-phobia, the fear that he will be the next man to fall after credible sexual assault accusations are made against him by girls and women.
If he had half his wits about him — a big if — and if there are some highly credible women he assaulted yet to come forward, some very possibly because they were paid off, he ought to be very very afraid.
Of course “ought to be” doesn’t apply to Trump. He never reacts like we think he ought to. However, stressors can build up to a breaking point even in a malignant narcissist.
If he has a psychotic episode marked by behavior that can’t be ignored, even by Breitbart and Fox News, he will have to be removed from office most likely in the only rapid way possible, invoking the 25th Amendment. There is no way anyone could hide a psychotic episode for any length of time since the predominant feature of these is a break from reality which can involve paranoid ideation, delusions, ideas of reference, and hallucinations.
If after all the speculation about what malfeasance, collusions, or corruption could lead to Trump not finishing his first term, it would be the most delicious karmic irony if it was a sex scandal that brought him down by being the golden straw that broke the camel’s back.
Addendum:
While psychosis can come on gradually, the onset can be sudden. What to look for in a first psychotic episode