As I've been saying for months and would appear to be obvious to everyone except this "Fifth Avenue" supporters.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/ Wonder if we will ever see what it actually I and how compromising it is.
How does one blackmail a guy like Trump?
We already know he is an adulterer, gropes women, treats women like sex objects and more. The only thing we don't know are the salacious details of what he does in bed. Who cares? I don't think that is blackmail material.
We already know he has financial ties to Russian and Chinese banks. His tax returns were leaked. If there is anything there, somebody who hates his guts would have already leaked it. Moreover, the Clinton, Obama, and Democrat opposition research seems pretty good. Is there really something that hasn't already been leaked? These days when there are so many electronic records, so many hacks, so many leaks, and so many thefts of confidential data, I have to think if there is anything out there about Trump, we'd know. It isn't like Trump is goody-two-shoes so that nobody wanted to hurt the guy.
Finally the lynchpin of any blackmail scheme is to keep bad information under wraps. I don't know how we do that. I take that back, Hillary successfully did it. But in the case of Trump, the information must be known and existing in order to be blackmail material. That is not the same thing as data which has been bleach-bitted.
We had similar blackmail rumors about JFK, LBJ, and Gerald Ford, and maybe others. Nothing came of any of that. Oh and don't forget WJC. We still don't know the story about his broken leg in the middle of the night at Greg Norman's house.
This isn't to say there isn't any damaging material out there about Trump, one has to assume there is, just cuz Trump is Trump. But blackmail material? I have my doubts.