Russia, if you're listening … maybe sort of keep this one to yourself?
Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen has released the foreword to his forthcoming tell-all about the president, and boy, howdy, there are already details about Trump’s personal life and presidential campaign, including that he participated in “golden showers in a sex club in Vegas,” engaged in tax fraud and “cheated in the election, with Russian connivance.”
We had pretty much confirmed the rest of that was true, but the existence of the fabled Russian “Pee Pee Tape” was still just a matter of speculation. Now, however, the existence of that bit of classic Russian “Kompromat” seems much more likely.
Some aspects of the Steele Dossier have already been corroborated, in particular the main allegations that Putin and Russia actively favored Trump over Clinton and that many Trump campaign officials and associates had multiple secret contacts with Russians. The Daily Telegraph has reported that anonymous intelligence sources believe Russian intelligence agencies may have sought to create doubt about the veracity of the dossier, which coincidentally has been a major Trump talking point.
While I would certainly welcome a further vindication of the dossier, and any measure of humiliation of Trump, I really have no particular desire to witness a high definition recording of the Orange One happily watching a couple of Russian sex workers engaged in “Water Sports” (no judgement — to each their own).
If it should turn up, perhaps someone with a less queasy stomach can just let me know — “Oh yeah. That’s him.”