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Anthony Scaramucci Hints at Putin and the KGB’s Mystery ‘Hold’ Over Trump
(www.thedailybeast.com)
It’s the Daily Beast, sooo… grain of salt needed.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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Trump definitely acts like a person that Putin has a hold over. If he had, the only question is what this "hold" is.
My bet: A video of Trump happily banging a minor (or even several) in a Moscow hotel room. It would perfectly fit his personal profile, him being a "friend" of Epstein.
Nah, it has to be money. No way something like that would ruin Trump at this point.
If he has access to "KGB" records my question is how did he get this information and could it be misinformation? If not misinformation, then how do we prove it's validity ask Putin, the CIA, DIA, or any of the other 3 letter agency's?
Yeah. But if you supported the alternative, you're a genocide supporting false progressive blue or nothing scab. In all caps sometimes. Get criticized for calling out the sitouts in one thread, then in another they claim they voted Kamala anyway.
Seriously, I think these guys are running on a script.
From my perspective, this doesn't seem very complicated. Putin is rumored to be the richest (now second or third richest) man in the world. Elon gave what would have previously been well within Putin's budget and look at the absolute subjugation Trump is willing to put up with. This was always a quid pro quo, but Trump doesn't operate on Kompromat. In my opinion, it's just buying favor because it literally is that transactional. Trump will only rip you off if he thinks he can get away with it unscathed.
Doesnt this assume that if it weren't for evil people giving trump money, that he would be a good person?
I would say anyone looking for buyers on favor is inherently a bad person, especially if those favors are always anti-"the one thing you're supposed to do"
At this point, I really do believe the guy could step onto timesquare and just kill a bunch of people, and his voters would still do the mental gymnastics to explain all of that away as the act of a genius businessman just out there to save your average white suburbanite slob. If they even believed it in the first place, the probability of which is quite low.
So yeah, no, that seems quite unlikely.
Cult. MAGA is a cult.
Maga is a death cult*
I mean, it's quite literally a Nazi fascist cult. No need to call it anything less
Why does anyone still listen to Anthony Scaramucci or Michael Cohen? These guys were never whistle-blowers, just con-men who changed teams.
This whole thing hinges on Scaramucci's credibility, which means it should be ignored.
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