Introduction
I remembered writing one dairy about Trump and Russian kompromat some months ago and decided to check it out again. Rather than go to my posting history to find what I wrote, I just Googled kompromat Daily Kos and saw that I was not the only Kossack, not nearly, to write about this. Not only that I found two more stories I wrote which I didn’t remember. I thought this was a good time to republish them. The amazing Google Machine now has this story on the top of the page. Here are links to numbers two and three: Kompromat , Stormy and Trump - Daily Kos , Thanks, Stormy: even if the shower tape is a myth there's ... - Daily Kos
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Karmic Kompromat Could Bring Trump Down, But Not In The Way You May Think
Some thoughts on reading
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 through another sexual scandal the way he did when all the women claimed he sexually 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
This story keeps getting better (for us) and worse for Trump and his minions. Not only does it have the ring of truth, considering what we know about Trump’s sexual proclivities, his lack of boundaries, his narcissistic confidence he can do anything he wants to do to satisfy his perversions (pleasure from grabbing women is a paraphilia). While enjoying consenting golden showers is a paraphilia, it isn’t harmful; that is unless Putin can blackmail you with videos.
This is the first time I’ve decided there was enough information on a topic I’ve already written about here to write a third story.
This comes not from the grown cacophony of serious voices saying they don’t believe Trump’s denials, especially since he has offered no evidence except his word that they are false. This coming from a pathological liar! It comes from an excellent article in The Conversation about honey traps published today.
Ever since World War II Russian spy agencies have had notable success using sexual blackmail to recruit spies. “The Conversation” article describes many of them. They also give examples of how they are using honey traps today:
Here’s an interesting tidbit from The Daily Beast:
Trump shouldn’t be too embarrassed by the rumors; he is far from alone. In fact, one would be hard-pressed to find a world leader in history, especially a Trumpian one with despotic tendencies, without a closet full of underage or extramarital or piss-covered skeletons. Dictators and deviant sex go together like Russia and blackmail. www.thedailybeast.com/...
Also from the Daily Beast article, file this under “what I didn’t know about Putin’s sex life:
He had a wife, with whom he fathered two children before she disappeared from the public eye for years. Many assumed her dead until she suddenly reappeared for long enough to divorce Putin. During the time she was out getting fresh air in the Russian countryside, Putin was alleged to have taken up with a former rhythmic gymnast he met when she was only a teenager. The pair have three rumored children. Last year, Page Six speculated that Putin has a new girlfriend, a “busty” 23-year-old who appeared in a sexy calendar dedicated to Putin’s birthday when she was just out of high school. The rhythmic gymnast, say the reports, was kicked to the curb. He’s like Leonardo DiCaprio, but only 5-foot-7 and without the ability to move his face.
One could argue that the difference between, say, a Putin or an Amin rumor and the Trump rumor is that the aforementioned world leaders faced accusations that bolstered their virile image. The Trump rumor, not so much. Even though the Trump dossier contains little verifiable information, it’s hard to eliminate the stench of a pee rumor from a mattress or a reputation. But it could be much worse. At least nobody’s speculating about what’s wrong with his penis. Yet.
Considering the allegations about Trump and how if true they would explain his being so pro-Putin, the Wikipedia entry on kompromat reads almost like an indictment.
Here’s my original story:
On MSNBC and Bloomberg's With All Due Respect hosted by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann they didn’t seem to think these Russia stories about Trump would be game changers prior to the election. But the public loves sexy stories, and they don’t necessarily have to involve sex; but Russia’s notoriously effective and sometimes very dangerous FSB would have been negligent if they didn’t try to compromise billionaire Donald Trump when he was in Moscow for his 2013 Miss Universe pageant. This part of the Russia story could also involve sex.
This morning I wrote about how the FSB might have lured Trump into a classic spy honey trap and have videos of him in sexually compromising activities with a minor, or for that matter since he was married, with an adult woman.
The Russians may have blackmail material they can, or already have used on Donald Trump.
Since the time immemorial, spy agencies have set honey traps to lure susceptible men (and women) into sexual liaisons or relationships which they later could use either to blackmail foreigners or force them to betray their own countries.
(I was wrong about this… I mean… who thinks golden showers?)
With Trump, they easily could have found a 15-year-old to come on to him and play on Trump’s sexual proclivities. Of course, they would have videos of everything he did.
Considering that Putin is a former KGB agent I would be surprised if he didn’t order FSB (the new KGB) to get something he could use against someone like Trump who he might need in his pocket in the future.
If he did this when Trump was nominated he must have broken out the Stolichnaya Gold vodka, Beluga caviar, and Piramides Edicion Limitada 2008 Cuban cigars to celebrate his spymaster prescience.
Are honey traps real? You bet!
Oh, they're real. Honey traps, also called "honey pots," have been a favorite spying tactic as long as sex and espionage have existed—in other words, forever. Perhaps the earliest honey trap on record was the betrayal of Samson by Delilah, who revealed Samson's weakness (his hair) to the Philistines in exchange for 1,100 pieces of silver, as described in the book of Judges. The practice continued into the 20th century and became a staple of Cold War spy craft. Governments around the world set up honey traps to this day, but it's an especially common practice in Russia and China. The Central Intelligence Agency doesn't comment on whether its agents use their sexuality to obtain information, but current and former intelligence officials say it does happen occasionally. Slate emphasis added
Take the following poll with a grain of salt, well, more like several grains of salt, a lime, and a glass of tequila.
Friday, Jan 13, 2017 · 7:14:58 PM PST · HalBrown
Rachel Maddow referenced this story from The Guardian tonight.
Wood said he believed Steele was a “very competent professional operator”, adding: “I do not think he would make things up. I don’t think he would necessarily always draw the correct judgment but that’s not the same thing at all.”
Former Foreign Office and intelligence officials told the Guardian on Thursday that Steele was highly respected in the intelligence community.
Steele’s dossier contains “pretty central accusations” about a presidential candidate being complicit in the hacking of his rival, and about the Russian intelligence services holding lurid sexual material on Trump, Wood said. “These seemed to me to have important implications - if true.”
The allegations were lent weight by some of Trump’s public behaviour on the campaign trail, he added. “It is a suggestion that was I think given certain colouration by the way Trump talked about the hacking exercise and by the stories about his treatment of women, and of course the KGB and FSB now make it a regular practice to do honeytrap exercises.”
The former spy went into hiding this week after his cover was blown. “Russia would certainly like to know where he got his information from - assuming his information is basically true and he hasn’t just made it up, which I don’t believe for a moment - and they’re accustomed to take action,” said Wood, describing the allegations as “dangerous knowledge”.
This Russian Tweet remind us of what Rachel said, and which spy movie aficionados “know” — once a spy always a spy. The former MI-6 agent and current professional private spy is now in hiding. Rachel wondered why. Is he afraid for his life, considering that Moscow has a record of tracking down and killing people no matter where they are.
Friday, Jan 13, 2017 · 7:26:24 PM PST · HalBrown
More from Rachel, and David Corn:
When I spoke with the former spy, he appeared confident about his material—acknowledging these memos were works in progress—and genuinely concerned about the implications of the allegations. He came across as a serious and somber professional who was not eager to talk to a journalist or cause a public splash. He realized he was taking a risk, but he seemed duty bound to share information he deemed crucial. He noted that these allegations deserved a "substantial inquiry" within the FBI. Yet so far, the FBI has not yet said whether such an investigation has been conducted. As the former spy said to me, "The story has to come out."
Friday, Jan 13, 2017 · 8:40:54 PM PST · HalBrown
This story goes back to Jullian Assange in a 2010 Slate article
www.slate.com/…
The Central Intelligence Agency doesn't comment on whether its agents use their sexuality to obtain information, but current and former intelligence officials say it does happen occasionally.
I had a personal experience with this when two federal agents, release of information in hand, came to interview me because they planned to hire one of my former psychotherapy clients for a job that she was, dare I say, uniquely qualified for.