protip: there is no russian kompramat. never was. it's headline grabbing laziness. donald trump was born a nyc construction scion raised equally in both the kkk and mafia. trump perfers russian strongmen and fascists, he thinks democracy is weak and worthless. there's no gotcha. trump does what he wants because it pleases him. that it. this was always the fight. if the million dead from a purposefully inept covid response didn't tell you that last time, i don't know if there anything anyone can say. in a free, fair, and safe (last?) election young democrats couldn't be bothered to cast a ballot for the continuation of democracy, and so we get fascist disassembly instead
It'd oddly coincidental that it always happens to please Putin too. Also go back to that Helsinki meeting and look at the body language. Trump's is a display of cringing submissiveness that is not consistent with it just being an alignment of interest. Trump is shit-scared of Putin for some reason, kompromat or not.
There is no kompramat that's been proven, however Trump is very happy to take Russian money to further Russian interests. It's the same with the Saudis and Israelis. The US government is for sale.
“The context for this footnote comes from a discussion of the conversation Trump had with Comey during the presidential transition about the Steele dossier, the original source of the pee tape allegations. According to Steele’s dossier, a source alleged that Russians had a tape of compromising material from a 2013 trip to Moscow in which Trump watched prostitutes engage in sexual acts. One part of that sexual encounter allegedly included “golden showers.” Comey would say later that Trump had become obsessed with the sexual allegations in the Steele dossier, despite those allegations being not the criminally incriminating ones, and raised it “at least four times” with the then head of the FBI.”
My theory (and not just mine) is that, in the 80s, Trump ratted out the NY mafia to SDNY, and that's why he was protected from prosecution for his many crimes after that. The collapse of Gotti and co. led to the Russian mob getting much more power.
The narrative was that trump might turn on putin, because Russia is doing terribly on the war front. That seemed possible, but Trump is so easily influenced he bought in to the Russian propaganda the second Putin talked to him.
Trump turns on everybody, but he's never turned on Putin. I don't think there was ever a possibility Trump was going to go against Russia, the source of that was probably people around Trump who are less subservient to Putin.