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Does Russia Have Compromising Info On PEOTUS Trump?
Topic Started: Jan 11 2017, 02:48 AM (192 Views)
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....saw this over on Reddit and it piqued my interest,...long story short: supposedly Russia has compromising info on the incoming President and that both he and outgoing Pres. Obama were briefed on the matter....
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Multiple outlets are reporting that intelligence officials briefed President Obama and President Elect Trump on allegations that Russia has in their possession compromising information on the President elect.


.....selected links of interest:
(1) USA Today: Intel Chiefs Briefed Obama & Trump On Unverified, Salacious Allegations Involving Russia & PEOTUS
(2) CNN: Intel Chiefs Presented Trump With Claims Of Russian Efforts To Compromise Him
(3) The Guardian: FBI Director Given Dossier By John McCain Alleging Trump-Russia Contacts
(4) NBC News: Trump Briefing Materials Included Damaging Allegations Of Trump-Russia Ties
(5) Politico: Trump Confronts Firestorm Over Russia Allegations

....thoughts? Is there something here or is this all smoke-and-mirrors?
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(The Guardian) Kremlin ridicules claims
--The Kremlin has ridiculed the claims it collected compromising material on Trump as unfounded and laughable, writes Alec Luhn in Moscow.

Russian state media dismissed the reports as still more unproven accusations against the country, which a report published last week by US intelligence agencies said had meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump.

“Its content was like a parody of poorly constructed kompromat,” the television channel Rossiya 24 said of the reports, using a common term for compromising material. There is a long tradition in Russia of kompromat surfacing and leading to the disgrace of political figures and opposition activists.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called the dossier “pulp fiction”, saying the Kremlin did not have compromising material on Trump nor on Hillary Clinton, as the documents also said.

“This is an absolute canard, an absolute fabrication, and it’s complete nonsense,” Peskov said in a statement. “The Kremlin does not engage in collecting kompromat.”

Peskov said Moscow needed to “respond with the appropriate humor” to the allegations, but also called the news an “obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations” with the United States.

“There are those who bend over backwards to ratchet up tensions and continue the witch-hunt. This is necessary so relations remain in a state of degradation.”

--Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/11/kremlin-ridicules-claims-collected-material-donald-trump
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--WikiLeaks has a 100% record of accurate authentication. We do not endorse Buzzfeed's publication of a document which is clearly bogus. (Wikileaks, 11 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) ProPublica’s president Richard Tofel has defended BuzzFeed’s decision to publish the unverified dossier. He said publication will help to establish the truth of the claims in the documents.
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(The Guardian) President-elect Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway has described the called the allegations as “fake news”, McClatchy reports.

Conway told Seth Meyers on “Late Night” that Trump “said he’s not aware” of being briefed on reports that Russia had compromising information on him, despite a CNN report earlier that day saying he and President Barack Obama had both been presented with the information.

“We should be concerned that intelligence officials leak to the press and won’t go and tell the president-elect or the president of the United States himself now, Mr. Obama, what the information is,” Conway said Tuesday. “They’d rather go tell the press.”
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(The Guardian) Reuters rounds up Trump’s denials on Twitter, caps lock and all:

US President-elect Donald Trump said that Russia had never tried to use leverage with him and blamed intelligence agencies for news reports that Moscow had compiled compromising information on him.

In a series of Twitter posts hours before his first news conference in nearly six months, Trump accused intelligence agencies of taking “one last shot” at him by leaking the information.

“Are we living in Nazi Germany?” he asked.

The businessman-turned-politician, due to enter the White House in nine days, and his appointed chief of staff, Reince Priebus, derided as “fake news” a CNN report that classified documents presented to Trump in an intelligence briefing last week included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising information about him.

“Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” Trump wrote in one of the Twitter posts.

He pointed to the Kremlin’s denials of the reports on the dossier that emerged late on Tuesday, writing, “Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is ‘A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE.’ Very unfair!”
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(The Guardian) NBC News lists 10 questions Trump needs to answer during his press conference. The first three are on Russia:

1. After the intelligence briefing you received on Friday, you and your team released statements, fired off tweets, and conducted interviews -- but never once condemned Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Why give Russia and Vladimir Putin a pass? And why more outrage directed at the victim (the DNC, John Podesta) than the perpetrator (Russia).

2. In the year and a half that you’ve either been running for office or been president-elect, you’ve criticized numerous Republicans, Democrats, and members of the media. But you’ve never once criticized Putin. Why not?

3. You’ve said that Russia’s interference didn’t impact the result of the election. But you eagerly cited WikiLeaks revelations against Hillary Clinton and her team in the final weeks of the campaign, saying things like, “Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks” and “This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove.” If they didn’t impact the election, why were you citing them on the campaign trail?

-Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/ten-questions-donald-trump-n705626
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(The Guardian) The BBC has also compiled a list of 10 questions for Trump, including these three:

--Were any of your team in contact with Russian officials during the campaign?

--Do you have confidence in the US intelligence services, and do you think they have confidence in you?

--You mocked Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over their attempts at a “reset” of relations with Russia. How does your approach to improving ties with Russia differ from theirs?

-Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38582441?ocid=socialflow_twitter
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(The Guardian) McCain describes passing 'information' to FBI
--Senator John McCain has released a statement confirming that he received “sensitive information” that he passed to the FBI, as previously reported. McCain says he was “unable to make a judgment about [the contents’] accuracy”. Here is the statement in full:

Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public. Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI. That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.”
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(The Guardian) Report from Trump tower: full house awaits Trump
--President-elect Trump is about to face the media for the first time since July, and the journalists crammed into the lobby of Trump Tower in Fifth Avenue, Manhattan are bracing themselves for what promises to be a feisty encounter. Trump likes to denigrate those covering him as the “crooked media”, and that was even before the incendiary events overnight.

CNN put a fuse under the press conference on Tuesday night by reporting that intelligence chiefs had informed him as well as President Obama of unsubstantiated allegations that Russian operatives claimed to have compromising information on the next US head of state. Then BuzzFeed lit the fuse by publishing the “unverified” memo on which the claims were based.

The press encounter is being held in the lobby of Trump Tower, just in front of the gold escalator down which Trump and his family came in 2015 at the launch of his unlikely bid for the White House. Now the space has been patched up into a visual feast fit for an incoming president, with a blue cloth backdrop and a row of 10 American flags in front of which the president-elect will stand at a podium.

Lest anyone is in any doubt about who is in charge here, in terms of the relationship between the real estate billionaire-turned-politician and the media, the room is painfully overcrowded. There are about 60 more journalists in the room than seats to accommodate them, producing a distinctly edgy feeling even before the great man arrives.
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--Trump team so far is remaining silent on what's in the manila folders. My bet: docs passing off control of each of his entities to his kids (Zeke Miller, Time - 11 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) Trump spokesman calls Buzzfeed documents 'sad and pathetic attempt to get clicks'
--Sean Spicer, Trump’s incoming press secretary, speaks as Trump arrives with his children Ivanka, Donald Jr and Eric.

Spicer refers to the “frankly outrageous and highly irresponsible for a left-wing blog [Buzzfeed] ... to drop highly salacious ... information on the internet just days before he takes office.”

He calls Buzzfeed’s decision to publish the Russia report “a sad and pathetic attempt to get clicks”.
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(The Guardian) Spicer introduces vice-president-elect Mike Pence. “We are nine days away from the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States of America,” he says. He says he’s profoundly honored and humbled.

That was a guns-blazing condemnation by Spicer of the decision to publish documents claiming to detail outré Trump conduct in Russia, documents that senator John McCain saw fit to pass to the FBI.

Spicer dismissed the reports contained in the documents as wholly false and riddled with inaccuracies.

Mike Pence, the incoming vice president, says the media has attempted “to delegtimize this election”. He calls the publication of the documents the result of “media bias and an attempt to demean the president-elect”.
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(The Guardian) Trump suggests 'intelligence agencies' ginned up damning documents
--Here’s Trump.

He says thanks. He says he used to do news conference almost daily. “It’s good to be with you,” he says.

“We stopped giving them because we were getting a lot of inaccurate news.”

He thanks news organizations who did not publish “that nonsense” released by “maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, maybe the intelligence agencies.”

He says if the intelligence community did release the documents, which he calls “fake news,” it would be a “tremendous blot” on their legacy.
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(The Guardian) Trump hits six topics in three minutes
--Trump moves on. He says that car companies are reversing plans to set up plants overseas. He says he hopes the pharmaceutical industry, which is “getting away with murder,” will be next.

“Pharma” has a lot of lobbyists, “a lot of power,” Trump says.

Then he’s on to the F-35, the overbudget delayed fighter jet projects. Trump says he’s gotten to know “the generals” and “we’re gonna do big things.”

We’re going to have some competition and it’s going to be a beautiful thing.

Trump moves on. He says he met with Jack Ma and Bernard Arnault, and if the election did not turn out the way it did, those foreign executives would not be talking with American leaders.

“I will be the greatest jobs producer that god ever created,” Trump says. “We’re going to need certain amounts of other things, including a little bit of luck.”

He moves on. Military bands are going to play the inauguration, he says.
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