so, why was a tired salacious tape the first one released?

[mopinko]

anyone else find it suspicious that this particular tape is the first one to come out?

[hlthe2b]

1. I think someone needed a distraction and with Rudy "at the Ready"....

Count me tired of being manipulated. While it could cause him more legal problems, Trump et al knew it would come out sooner than later, so why not....?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Mark me as second on that count.

it's Friday, a week after the President of our Country hobbled 340 million Americans and 250 years of excellence and labor and care, and no announcements from Mueller. Deeply depressing.

[unblock]

3. as a poker player, the point of sometimes showing your hand

is to manage your image -- to help define what your opponents think you may or may not have.


the point isn't this tape in particular, which sounds like it may have not have any particularly big actual news.

the point is now people have to think what other tapes there are....

[eleny]

4. Regardless of Trump's manipulative reasons I consider it an hors d oeuvres

[RockRaven]

5. Probably the tapes show deadly serious criminality so Trumpists leak about a tawdry one first

to try and control everyone's first impression, which for a lot of people is all they will ever understand/know about it. Distract everyone with "sex! playboy! payoff!" while trying to distract from treason.

[GeorgeGist]

6. To hook the uninformed?