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1. Putin probably recorded the meeting with Trump.
2. Russia could at some point release or leak a portion for its own advantage.
3. Russia could at some point release or leak a *doctored* portion for its own advantage.
4. Trump would not be able to refute either.
7:48 AM - 16 Jul 2018
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lapfog_1
(29,191 posts)Trump is a WILLING co-conspirator with Putin and Russia... they have no more need to have leverage on him.
Girard442
(6,065 posts)...Donnie is already so far under Putin's thumb that it's hard see how he could be farther under.
dalton99a
(81,392 posts)A very, very smart traitor
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Just didn't inform Trump.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)They could doctor recordings of him to say ANYTHING and the dolt in chief wanders into the room like some confused Alzheimer's patient with an ill-fitting suit and bad tie like a modern incarnation of Mr. Magoo.
Please Vladimir, be very unhappy with the job performance Trump has provided you for your assistance and slip HIM the nerve agent you keep deploying in Britain...I swear, the USA won't hold you accountable...half of us are in hock to you for campaign cash and the other half are simply waiting to party when the shit gibbon stops wasting oxygen. You have a hall pass to do as you please, so please do...
kentuck
(111,052 posts)...and embarrassed Trump with the release of transcript from WH meeting of Russians with Trump. If we get any information at all about what happened, it will likely come from the Russian side. What a sad commentary.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,722 posts)Being outplayed by a master manipulator.
The US is doomed. Putin needs our Nuclear arsenal, our Natural resources, our powerful economy, in order to reconquer what was once the Soviet Union.
Blue Owl
(50,259 posts)Botany
(70,447 posts)... Russia's help in rigging our elections.
In Russian politics, kompromat, short for "compromising material" (компрометирующий материал , is damaging information about a politician or other public figure used to create negative publicity, for blackmail, or for ensuring loyalty.
Kompromat - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat
Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)We will have to go hard on him and reveal his complicity in order to denounce every promise that he is alleged to have made.