Ohr says Christopher Steele told him Russian intelligence believed it had Trump "over a barrel"

[kpete]

Ohr says Christopher Steele told him Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump "over a barrel”


WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.

The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also says he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, the people said.

The previously unreported details of the July 30, 2016, breakfast with Christopher Steele, which Ohr described to lawmakers this week in a private interview, reveal an exchange of potentially explosive information about Trump between two men the president has relentlessly sought to discredit.

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Among the things Ohr said he learned from Steele during the breakfast was that an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had said that Russian intelligence believed “they had Trump over a barrel,” according to people familiar with the meeting. It was not clear from Ohr’s interview whether Steele had been directly told that or had picked that up through his contacts, but the broader sentiment is echoed in Steele’s research dossier.

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https://apnews.com/4ac772445073491aa7d3ca9e558e0144

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. No wonder Spanky wants to ruin Bruce Ohr.

[dalton99a]

2. Yep.

[dem4decades]

4. Not just Spanky, but Putin too

[NewJeffCT]

3. and none of Trump's actions as president

have probably disabused Ohr, Comey, Mueller or Steele of that notion

[unitedwethrive]

5. He testified at the repub only hearing, right?

Don't you just wonder how they could hear this, and then justify their continued support of the orange one?

[MineralMan]

6. I'd rather see Trump IN the barrel.

Just saying...

[YessirAtsaFact]

22. I'd rather see shitgibbon in a casket

But a barrel would be okay for now.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. A barrel over Niagara falls.

[YessirAtsaFact]

26. That works!

[robersl]

7. Just For The Record

the saying is "Russia has Trump under a barrel", not "over a barrel". Why the hell would Trump care about being "over" a barrel?

[uponit7771]

8. The phrase "Over A Barrel" ... is correct It's an America phrase (link and quote)

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/over-a-barrel.html

This is an American phrase and first appeared in the mid-20th century. It is supposed that it alludes to the actual situation of being draped over a barrel, either to empty the lungs of someone who has been close to drowning, or to give a flogging. Either way, the position of helplessness and in being under someone else's control is what is being referred to.

[robersl]

11. Hmmm

Looks like you're right. It still doesn't make any sense, but that is the saying.

[YessirAtsaFact]

25. It's a traditional figure of speech

Making literal sense is optional.

However, picture a big wooden barrel lying on its side. Picture a person lying across the middle of it, their body parallel to the top and bottom of the barrel. Their feet are off the floor.

They are helpless in that position.

[Achilleaze]

30. Flogging is what Spanky* (R) is into

Stormy Daniels Spanks Trump Again

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/stormy-daniels-trump-60-minutes.html

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[GeorgeGist]

9. Nope

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/over+a+barrel

[Marcuse]

35. Any questions?

[Sanity Claws]

10. Where did you come with that?

If you don't understand an idiom, look it up. Don't just presume it is wrong.

[robersl]

14. Seriously

you look everything up before you say it? Why do you feel the need to make this comment?

[Sanity Claws]

15. You called someone wrong

Yes, I check things before saying someone is wrong.

[robersl]

16. Just My Luck

to run into the one person who has never made a mistake. My apologies for offending your superior sensibilities.

I wasn't saying YOU were wrong, just the reporter who wrote the article.

[Sanity Claws]

18. Oh Lord.

No wonder you get into arguments with people. You claim to know more than others. Then you read things in my answer that I never said. I never said I never made a mistake. I said that I check before calling out others and saying they are wrong.

[robersl]

19. If I Promise Never To Do It Again

can I go now?

[erronis]

27. Please do. And don't let the door hit you on the way out. (An American expression.)

You can look it up.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. I've never heard the expression "under a barrel."

[yardwork]

21. Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel

When tarantula took to the hills.

[ginnyinWI]

12. This is why you want an honest person with good character to be President.

Not only do we want a good leader who is a good role model and represents us well to the world, we don't want a crooked character who is in thick with criminals and has a lot to hide or be blackmailed with!

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Poor barrel!

Hope they selected a stout one

[Harker]

23. I knew a guy who got in a barrel.

He wound up under the table.

[ehrnst]

20. Any Politician who continues to say that Russian involvement in the election is "just a distraction"

maybe needs to be included in Mueller's investigation.

[Hekate]

28. Possibly they are. I bet Nunes and Rohrabacher aren't sleeping too well at night. nt

[Doodley]

29. Trump acts like a pedophile about to be rumbled. Whatever Putin has on him,

it is something so disgusting that it would destroy him. That is why he is so desperate to discredit Mueller and undermine the investigation. An innocent person has no reason to behave like that.

[potone]

37. Not necessarily.

I am less inclined to think that it is sleazy sexual behavior than that it is financial. I think he has been involved in very shady financial transactions with Russian oligarchs.

[smirkymonkey]

38. I agree. I think everyone already assumes that he is guilty of sleazy or even illegal sexual

behavior and have made up their minds about him. It would have to be something far more damaging to his image/brand, most likely involving finances.

[underpants]

31. Hell, I could have told him that.

This was why Steele started working on the dossier to begin with plus it's pretty obvious that Trump is beholden to Russians.

[oberliner]

32. Carter Page is a really weird guy

One of the oddest fellows in this whole mess.

[duforsure]

33. trumpwill next claim

Ohr is a spy or he is the one compromised. He'll try to criminalize him now.

[Gothmog]

34. From my twitter feed

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[0rganism]

36. about time American intelligence got its own barrel for the assclown

why can't we have nice things?