CIA: Senate briefed in September on Russian efforts to deliver a Trump victory

[Syt]

https://www.rt.com/news/373283-kremlin-trump-clinton-compromising/

Russia has no compromising info on Trump or Clinton, report is 'total bluff' – Kremlin

Moscow says documents alleging that Russia has compromising information on Donald Trump are a fabrication and a "total bluff." Russia has never gathered information of this kind on either the US president-elect, or his former rival, Hillary Clinton.

"The Kremlin has no compromising information on Trump. This report does not correspond to reality and is nothing but an absolute fiction," the deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters on Wednesday.

"This is a total bluff, an absolute fabrication, complete nonsense," he said.

He reiterated that there is no compromising information on Hillary Clinton either, and that the Russian authorities do not accumulate this type of information.

"Of course not. The Kremlin does not collect compromising information. The Kremlin [and] the Russian president are engaged in building relationships with our foreign partners, firstly – in the interests of the Russian Federation, in the interests of the Russian people, secondly – in the interests of global peace, stability and security," Peskov said.

On Tuesday, CNN published an article stating that US intelligence handed over a two-page synopsis of classified documents, which included claims that Russian operatives have compromising personal and financial information about Trump, to the president-elect and US President Barack Obama.

The information was included as an annex to a classified version of the report prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election, according to CNN.

Buzzfeed picked up the story, publishing the entire dossier purportedly "prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent."

The most appalling part of the dossier was the claim that Donald Trump has "personal obsessions and sexual perversion," including graphic sex acts, and a report that the president-elect once had Russian prostitutes urinate on each other in a hotel bed that the Obamas previously shared.

Apart from sex orgies, the dossier also suggests Russian officials offered the Republican real estate magnate lucrative deals in order to win influence over him ahead of the election.

The story exploded on Twitter with the hashtag #GoldenShowers shooting up the trending charts.

Later in the day, however, an anonymous member of the chatboard on 4chan posted a refutation of the now infamous "golden showers" story, calling it a hoax and "fanfiction." He or she claimed that several months ago, the story was sent to Republican political strategist Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election.

Moscow considers the scandal a clear attempt to damage relations with Washington and the president-elect personally. 

"This is an obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations," Peskov said.

"Pulp fiction, that's what it is called in English. Of course, probably the best way to react would be accordingly – with a certain sense of humor."

"Although there is a downside – indeed, there are those who are stirring up the hysteria, who go out of their way to maintain this state of a witch-hunt," he added.

[FunkMonk]

 

OK, if anything confirms at least some of what is in that dossier, that does.

I saw on twitter that Wikileaks is also saying the dossier is false, a fake, made up, etc.

[CountDeMoney]

Hilarious watching Rinse Grievous this morning defending the issue of how mentioning items in a classified debrief isn't really mentioning items in a classified debrief.

You know, kinda like how discussing secret drone strikes as mentioned in a NYT article is a violation of secret clearance because it mentions secret drone strikes that the government doesn't acknowledge.  Shocked, shocked!

[celedhring]

"Of course not. The Kremlin does not collect compromising information.

He's telling totally the truth though, I assume that's the FSB's job 

[Syt]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is "A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE." Very unfair!

Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!

I win an election easily, a great "movement" is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS. A sorry state!

Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?

[LaCroix]

anyone wondering how people bought all the crazy shit about hillary can just read the past eight hours of posts here

[garbon]

Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?

WTF?

[garbon]

anyone wondering how people bought all the crazy shit about hillary can just read the past eight hours of posts here

You're going to have to find a fresh angle.

[LaCroix]

You're going to have to find a fresh angle.

I don't get it

[grumbler]

You're going to have to find a fresh angle.

I don't get it

That's rather the point.

[LaCroix]

Very unfair!

[FunkMonk]

 

[viper37]

Alright, at this point I'm thinking LaCroix is right and that the peeing on the bed thing is too outlandish to be true. The problem, of course, is that many people want to believe it's true and Trump's character being what it is it is just possible that it could be true, so we're running with it. So even though it's probably not true it's still believable, and that's good enough.

I agree with grumbler that the real thing is probably underage sex, maybe with some nasty intimidation thrown in - i.e. it's not of the "but she loves me" kind but the "use, discard, and humiliate with threats to keep them silent" type (that's speculation of course).

My guess is that something did happen in that hotel room and there are enough details in there for Trump to realize that the people who are circulating the story know what happened for real. So it's a warning to Trump - whether from the Russians, the CIA, or whoever - to not to piss them off, as it were.

There is no need for the two things to be completely seperate.  It could be a golden shower thing with minor prostitutes.

[Maladict]

Honestly, though, if "Grab'em by the pussy" didn't topple him, I doubt this will.

It will if there's actual evidence of him with a minor, especially if it happened only a few years ago.

[Phillip V]