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Russia probably has strong kompromats on Trump and his administration. Can't explain it any other way. Why otherwise they would go out of the way to make idiots of themselves in public in front of the whole world?

I know Trump has not been an example of tact but this is something else.

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Could be as simple as he wants to say he "ended" the war. If history offers any lessons, it's that he doesn't think too much about the details and doesn't care how his actions impact others.

I totally think the people saying that KGB has video or photos or whatever from the late '80s of him sleeping with KGB agent/call girls or similar are plausible. But I have a really hard time imagining Trump being embarrassed by anything like that. He'd be like "Of course I slept with beautiful women! who wouldn't?"

I'd love to have some idea of what they could actually have that he'd be ashamed of, but he's so shameless it's hard for me to imagine. Which makes me more inclined to think that he just hasn't met a dictator that he's not jealous of more so than anything.

Maybe they weren't adults...

Apparently he raped a 13 year old under Epstein care.

Though I don't think he would be embarrassed by that. He'd just call it fake news and move on.

> I'd love to have some idea of what they could actually have that he'd be ashamed of, but he's so shameless it's hard for me to imagine.

“Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” -Eric Trump, 2014

"In terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets" -Don Jr, 2008

I guess it would end up like usual: "They are fake news. They are created with AI. Everybody can do it. My dog can do it. They just hate America. Bad people. They want to hurt our great country[…]" And his radicalized voters will follow him, like it did not end Berlusconi career after the "bunga-bunga" scandal

> Why otherwise they would go out of the way to make idiots of themselves in public in front of the whole world?

Because they are pure evil people, just like putin, and nobody is stopping them. It's that simple.

This is not mutually exclusive. Being evil makes it easier to succumb to Putin demands.

It's hard to imagine anything he's done in private with the KGB cameras rolling being worse than the mountain of stuff that's already publicly known, or that he has openly done in public.

The point of diluting the notion of truth into a meaningless concept - a process so loved by both Putin and Trump - is to make things such as kompromats have zero power.

Just imagine some photos and videos of Trump having sex with minors or even murdering someone emerge. Do you actually believe it will be damaging to him? “It’s fake, it’s AI, it’s our enemies trying to attack us”.

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