Let's make sure all alleged intelligence is verified before we get too crazy

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I'm talking specifically about the golden shower document.

Nothing like fake information used to kill a real story. Just ask Dan Rather.

[angstlessk]

1. I agree...golden showers??????? Who cares?????

Like he said

Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/

Since when has 'golden showers' surpassed murder as an offense?

[mythology]

9. Well in the event the report is true, there would be the minor difference of

whether a stupid, glib remark (in a long history of such) about a imagined murder and paying actual women to actually pee on each other.

[angstlessk]

10. I just don't see peeing on women he paid to pee on is worth

russia's time !

[pangaia]

13. It's the blackmail and all the rest of Russian influence.

[angstlessk]

15. Blackmail him how? He grabs pussy, walks in on underage naked beauty contestants...

why is peeing on paid prostitutes worse?

[pangaia]

18. it's not, except that it is a foreign government that, it would seem, has the the info.

which they could use against him to 'curry favor.' WHICH they already have beem doing.
Looks like trump and his goons have been feeding info to the russians for years.

[angstlessk]

19. It ain't golden showers...maybe something to do with

laundering money for the mafia?

[pangaia]

20. Could be...I have no idea...

[fishwax]

17. I suspect it's more about his ego than his campaign

He has incredibly thin skin, and can't stand people mocking him. Killing someone wouldn't be a blow to his ego. But I imagine that knowing #PEEOTUS is trending in twitter is a substantial blow to his ego.

[pangaia]

21. I think you may be right about this...

He should be tweeting in about.. oh..... 5-6 hours or so...

[uponit7771]

23. lol

[HassleCat]

2. If it meets National Enquirererererrr standards, it's OK.

[Barack_America]

3. Mmm hmm.

I'm not jumping on this one yet. Problem is, some of this can't easily be verified.

I'll wait, however, for one of the Senators who supposedly received this to verify it is the document he received.

[marylandblue]

4. Tommy_Carcetti is correct

Watch out for Russian disinfo to distract from what they really did. The golden shower thing is exactly what they would plant to make everyone talk about that instead of financial blackmail or whatever the real deal is.

[Denzil_DC]

5. We can make a start by not trivializing it by referring to it as "the golden shower document".

There are some very serious allegations, some of which bear out earlier reports from elsewhere, contained in the document.

Inevitably people are already laughing it up on Twitter (which, even if the showers thing is never proven, will needle Trump more than almost anything, so that's fine by me - he's more likely to make some serious mistakes), but the longer-term focus needs to be - and judging by the media coverage so far, will be - on the whole picture of covert Russian influence and the potential for blackmail.

[rug]

6. Doesn't matter. As long as we know what's in his heart.

And he wants it. Badly.

[LaydeeBug]

7. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.

*BIG* negative on that one. I want a special prosecutor right fucking now.

Nothing like a small thread to pull away at the whole fabric. Just ask Hillary Clinton. Or Barack Obama's birth certificate.

I want CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS!!! These golden showers were reportedly filmed by RUSSIA. Did Melania participate in this? Is she GOING AFTER THE PISSERS???

I mean HRC didn't go after any of Bill's accusers, but when did that stop them?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Double fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that!

If it's a false document, Obama and other high-level officials will speak up!

It's not at all like the CBS situation, with just a few people involved in the document that was later revealed to be fake.

[BigDemVoter]

11. good point

And they'll be looking for ANYTHING to discredit this. Even if one insignificant thing turns out to be hoax with the REST 100% true, the story is gone.

[mythology]

12. Agreed. Too many people believe things they want to believe

Rather than taking time to wait for facts. For example after all of the to do over the Russian malware found on a Vermont utility computer, it turned out that the suspicious network traffic was related to using Yahoo email which triggered an alert.

But the specific malware on the computer was found to be associated with general criminal malware not Russian malware. Lots of people ended up looking very foolish on that one.

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/02/vermont-utility-hack-not-linked-to-russia/

[tavernier]

14. I'm hoping it's way more than just the pee hitting the fan.

Financial blackmail, for instance.
Urinating hookers won't make a bit of difference to republicans.

[AJT]

16. Even if it is fake....

Hey Trump, how does it feel to have the fake news about you?

[TrekLuver]

22. I know I know, I bet this can't be verified...but it feels so damn good to celebrate...even if it is

short lived.