So this morning we have the Republicans on the House Intel committee declaring “Success” in their planned failure to discover anything substantive in their pseudo-investigation of the Trump and Russia, and we have now Ex-Secretary of State Tillerson discovering he’d been fired via tweet for daring to say the name “Russia” when commenting about a Russian-made nerve agent being used in a WMD ATTACK against a for RUSSIAN spy in England.
In the the midst of all that, Rachel Maddow revealed last night that Michael Isakoff and David Corn’s new book Russian Roulette has sections which may confirm some of the most salacious — and disgusting — part of the Christopher Steele dossier, the “golden shower” scene in the Presidential Suite of the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow defiling the bed where President Obama and Michelle had once slept.
Via Rawstory.
Discussing excerpts from David Corn and Michael Isikoff’s new book “Russian Roulette,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow outlined key passages from the book that could lend credence to the allegation that Trump in 2013 hired Russian prostitutes to urinate on a bed that then-President Barack Obama slept on.
Maddow noted that although Corn and Isikoff’s book asks more questions than it answers on the alleged incident that gave the dossier its notorious nickname, “they have lots of new detail about that allegation” — including that Trump did in fact book the Ritz-Carlton “presidential” suite where Obama once stayed.
Along with getting “very specific” about the time frame during which the incident would have to have taken place on Trump’s single night in Moscow, the book’s authors quote Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier, as lacking confidence in the “golden showers kompromat tape allegation.”
In earlier segments of the book published by Mother Jones, Isikoff and Corn also detailed an anecdote that took place in a “raunchy” Moscow nightclub called “The Act.”Trump, along with a British publicist and Russian singer who also attended the infamous Trump Tower meeting in 2016, “were photographed in the lobby by a local paparazzi,” and upon hearing the future president may attend, the club’s managers “arranged to have plenty of Diet Coke on hand” for him.
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The Act, the book continued, was known to feature at least two “golden showers” performances. Photos of Trump at the club later surfaced following the publication of the passage.
Now, this isn’t exactly full confirmation of the tape, or the events that have been alleged were recorded, but it does setup the exact potential for that scenario with Trump’s presence in the exact Hotel Suite that was mentioned by Steele, and conformation that he had attended performances at The Act nightclub which featured exactly that type of act.
On top of that we already have confirmation from both Trump’s bodyguard Keith Schiller and Sam Nunberg have confirmed that Emin Agalarov did attempt to send prostitutes to Trump’s room only to have them turned down by Schiller.
But they didn’t say anything about performers from The Act showing up at his suite.
Also for the record the claim that there are illicit sex tapes of Donald Trump recorded in Russia do not come exclusively from Christopher Steele.
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".
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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
And here’s more with Corn and Isakoff talking directly with Maddow about intelligence reports involving Putin, his hatred of Obama and why the intel community was slow to fully recognize the scope of his efforts against the U.S. elections.
Also, and this is important, Corn and Isakoff’s new book also confirms that George Papadopoulos has told Robert Mueller’s team that he met personally with Trump and told him about his intentions to reach out to the Russian government to setup a meeting, and the Trump personally approved this plan.
According to Isikoff and Corn’s new book “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” Papadopoulos told Mueller that during a March 31, 2016 foreign policy meeting, he informed Trump of his ability to arrange a meeting with Putin—an idea Papadopoulos claims Trump found “interesting.”
As Yahoo News reports, “Trump looked at Sessions, as if he expected him to follow up with Papadopoulos, and Sessions nodded in response, the authors write.”
Newsweek had previously mentioned this meeting as being told by Papadopoulos to a Greek reporter before the FBI came after him. What makes this significant is that for Trump or any of his people to negotiate with Russia is problematic for two reasons. Sanctions which would prevent them doing business with Putin or the Russian Government, and the Logan Act which prevents private citizens from negotiating U.S. foreign policy since they aren’t official members of the U.S. Government.
But here, right here, Trump and Papadopoulos plotted to violated either or both of those laws by attempting to setup a meeting between Trump and Putin.
That’s conspiracy. Conspiracy to violate U.S. Laws.
And we do know that Papadopoulos reached the Russians, and that they eventually told him that they had “thousands of Hillary Emails” — and did they take that information and tell the FBI?
Nope.
They tried to get ahold of that information for themselves, or else get the Russians to release it — which is exactly what they did.
That right there — IS COLLUSION. it’s exactly the collusion that the GOP House Intel committee members couldn’t find, not that they really looked very hard for it.
Tuesday, Mar 13, 2018 · 5:36:57 PM +00:00 · Frank Vyan Walton
Alright several people have mentioned that The Act is in Las Vegas, reading excerpts from Russian Roulette Trump’s visit to the club was during the Miss USA Contest which took place in Vegas on Trump’s birthday June 14th.
The Act was no ordinary nightclub. Since March, it had been the target of undercover surveillance by the Nevada Gaming Control Board and investigators for the club’s landlord—the Palazzo, which was owned by GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson—after complaints about its obscene performances. The club featured seminude women performing simulated sex acts of bestiality and grotesque sadomasochism—skits that a few months later would prompt a Nevada state judge to issue an injunction barring any more of its “lewd” and “offensive” performances. Among the club’s regular acts cited by the judge was one called “Hot for Teacher,” in which naked college girls simulate urinating on a professor. In another act, two women disrobe and then “one female stands over the other female and simulates urinating while the other female catches the urine in two wine glasses.” (The Act shut down after the judge’s ruling. There is no public record of which skits were performed the night Trump was present.)
The Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow took place in November, so I have to now say the issue of only having a few hours between leaving the club with Emin and his photoshoot the next morning seems a bit muddled. Unless we’re talking about two different clubs, which seems more likely.
