It is very likely that the Kremlin possesses kompromat on the president—senior intelligence sources from several countries have confirmed to John Schindler, a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst, that unpleasant videos of Trump exist—yet there’s no reason to believe this particular claim, without corroborating evidence, according to Observer.
The very idea that our president has acted out in sexually controversial (and perhaps illegal) ways—and that somebody has filmed it—is taken very seriously by intelligence experts, Schindler wrote for Observer.
However, many of the “Trump tapes” floating around in spy circles worldwide cannot be verified, while some of them are obvious fakes, says the author, who says he has studied the issue for the past couple of years.
As many as a dozen intelligence services worldwide, on four continents, are in possession of some sort of “Trump tape” featuring sexual escapades of a controversial nature; in some cases, the women involved appear to be underage. Some of these tapes have been shared with the Mueller investigation.
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It’s obvious to savvy Western counterspies that someone is spreading fake Trump tapes—not all of them high quality—to muddy the waters. The obvious suspect, of course, is the Kremlin.
Since the Russians know all about President Trump’s decades of personal antics, including what kompromat exists on him, they appear to be pushing dubious and unverifiable tapes, some of them obviously fake, to create chaos and confusion.
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This, then, is yet another successful Kremlin spy operation, one more grand provocation to mess with the Western minds. Although Vladimir Putin is deeply disappointed with President Trump, keeping an increasingly damaged and ineffectual president in the White House, suits Moscow’s foreign policy needs just fine, Schindler believes.