• ladicius@lemmy.world
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    It wasn’t disinformation - it is a pedophile who had minors delivered into his bed and was filmed during the atrocities. The resulting child pornography is what makes orange guy the lap dog of a psychotic killer.

    The rest was easy with an asset that high in the ranks.

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      Could be. It could also just be bribes.

      The current situation is really nice for countries like Russia, Saudi-Arabia and China. They just need to pay a few billion to Trump and get stuff that cannot be bought and are easily worth hundreds of billions from the US empire.

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        Their new crypto grifts really take this to an extreme level. Hundreds of millions just directly given to Trump as bribes now, its actually insane.

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        It could be either of those things certainly, but I feel like no amount of money Russia could provide would be enough for Trump, he’s in control of the United States Treasury and can direct money anywhere with impunity (see also: Starlink). If they came out with a video he’d just call it fake - particularly in this age of AI - and it would have zero effect.

        Russians throw people out windows all the time though. I’d be willing to bet that the threat of physical harm is all that is necessary to control him.

        Or quite possibly, all three things. Keep us happy and the money keeps flowing, the porn stays in the vault and you won’t be unalived.

        One thing is certain: it’s not nothing.

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          Russia doesn’t care, as long as there’s division in the west, and they have achieved in many countries already

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      It was mostly disinformation though, if you look at how most of the social media, and MSMs ran, it’s mostly talking points from Russia in some form another

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      And at this point, who cares? Tell the CIA what blackmail Putin has on you. That’s what they’re there for.

      Don’t sell out your whole gd country and the world because you’re just that desperate to hide your personal crimes.

      What a moron.

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        Because once you give into blackmail, that just opens to door to further blackmail. And every single time you give in, it makes it worse and worse. At this point, yeah Trump could get his base to arm wave away him fucking minors. But then he’d have to explain away every thing he’s done for them since then, which is just treasonous.