Trump is not so much Putin’s friend as he is under Putin’s thumb. The Melania skinpics are just salt in his wounds, and a reminder of who is boss (i.e. not the Orange stain).
Context matters. It’s one thing to show them off to individuals in his office. It is quite another to have them made universally available on the interwebs.
They've been on the Internet for years yet you'll never find Trump complaining about it. I'd be interested to know if he complains to Putin about it or he knows he's been ridiculed.
Do you actually think Trump cared about that? Or would say anything if he did? Anyway it looks like that marriage is running on fumes at this point. Ms. Trump apparently refused Jill Biden's invite to tea and hinted that she won't be returning to the White House. No real surprises there. She was pretty much 100% AWOL during the campaign too. I expect they will stay married in name only until his second term is over (or he kicks the bucket) and divorce papers will be filed on Jan. 21, 2029. That seems like so far away!
Yeah, no. People said she would file divorce papers after he lost to Biden in 2020. And then he got hit with all these huge settlement claims from court cases against him. Melania may be waiting for a bigger payoff. Or maybe she, too, is under Putin’s thumb and the nude photos were a warning shot.
I do not understand "pre marriage agreements" and may be naive but I also believe she loves their son and wants the best for him during these years while he is receiving his education....for his future.
I think what Putin did was insulting. I should have realized that Trump was displaying her pictures as a matter of manly pride with no consideration towards Melania.
Trump has not hidden who he is...and yet....he has been chosen to lead what once was the greatest nation in the world.
Putin has known all along, he has Trump "in his pocket".
Actually I might take that back. An original post nup where there was no pre nup is usually unenforceable but you are probably right, a post nup that IMPROVES on a previous pre nup probably would be enforceable.
it's reported that Barron still lives in the Trump tower. Well, I guess that saves us taxpayers some $$, but I wondered if he needs mommy close by that badly.
I agree with Kompromat Putin has on Trump. Further I think Musk along with other world autocrats trump communes with are vehicles for communicating Putin’s advice/commands. A true Manchurian candidate and we have yet to realize how bad it will be. I wish MSM and others would dig more deeply into this profile and broadcast it. Putin’s goal is to disrupt and hobble western democracies which he is achieving; this has been said many times, but I don’t think it’s forefront enough.
Putin and his buddies are bringing out their treasure trove of pictures and info that should have infuriated Trump. Trump is a coward. He bows before Putin. Putin and his thugs are enjoying every minute. Trump is allowing them to continue to shame him.
This is such a "clown show". How long are we going to continue enduring these insults as Trump and gang take our beloved country away from us and our children and grandchildren!?....as we WATCH!!!!
Ed, we should be very concerned by the selection of Gabbard as head of national security. We might as well have a Putin oligarch present in the Oval Office or post our intelligence online.
In both cases, I think it involves young boys, possibly even dead young boys. The nudie pics were both an FU and a warning if he doesn't do as told. As the Russian security guy said, he has obligations to those who put him in power
And you think this because? Do you have ANY evidence of this? Or are you just making it up? I really do think as much as we hate Trump we should stay away from totally ignorant speculation. If you KNOW something present the evidence. If not, better to stick with stuff that is not slanderous and unproven.
Ha!! Neither do I. Somewhere, Lady Lindsey may be enjoying the kindness of strangers of the type the author of that quote did, yet without the fearlessness and poetry in so doing. I wish him no harm. Yet, I do wish his J. Edgar Hoover-esque hypocrisy to be exposed
If only he'd just go privately enjoy his peculiar tastes in power play in whatever consensual adult manner he chooses - instead of playing them out on a national stage and jeopardizing everyone and anyone else who wants to do so.
Just be honest Lindsey...but it's gone too far. There was a time I had some respect for him...but that's long gone. He's become an evil one, just to stay in power.
It happened to my ex-wife...it was amazing to watch first hand. She went from a shy and caring when elected for the first time to kiss my ring and we can talk after she served a term.
I don't know how you missed them a few years ago. They were unavoidable on the internet. It seems that the MAGA still find their first lady as "classy" even in the soft-core lesbian photos--which is REALLY odd since they hate the LGTBQ+ community. Johnson came right out and said that he and his son have some kind of program to monitor their consumption of porn--I wonder how many times HE viewed those photos?
Yes. If not directly, he has it through Putin. Putin and Musk are friendly, as friendly as egomaniacs can be with anyone. Elon bought the White House for Trump, and attaching himself to Trump's side like a burr is a constant reminder of who Trump really works for.
I have no faith in any Republican and given the number of Democrats that voted for HR 9495 which would give Trump powers to curtail the freedom of speech and action of any social justice organization, publication he deems a "threat" we know that some Democrats are not reliable either. I am grateful that HR 9495 did not pass, and thank my Representative Jonathan Jackson for voting NO! https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9495
We are currently looking at chaos in the DOD and Intelligence community and Homeland Security, as the Jr High will be unleashed on our government thanks to Trump. When Trump first ran for office I would say to my family at dinner time, that Melania is a deep cover Russian agent, and her mission was to marry a prominent American and get him into the White House so he could destroy us from within. I would occasionally say they were a deep cover couple, or Trump was the Russian agent. While I said this in a tongue and cheek way, I know that this was based on my instincts of who they are as people.
Let us hope our weakened Democratic structures, the ones that allowed Putin to interfere with voting in multiple ways including bomb threats in polling places in swing states, can be salvaged and strengthened. Let us hope that Putin cannot gain everyone's ear with the compromat that he has on them, or on Trump. I foresee the chaos makers in the White House Office being just that, along with their Junior High MAGA buddies in Congress. At the same time, these chaos makers did not get a lot done. Musk is a proud chaos maker too, and he bought the presidency for Trump, which is why he is attached to him like a bur, always there, always sticking in his opinion.
The Democrats need to get their own social media platform and their own version of TikTok and get their messages out to the people who missed them. They have 2 years to reclaim Congress. They have to work with disaffected Republicans and former Republicans like those of the Lincoln Project to get their messaging sharp and smart to different age groups. There must be a platform that is free of oligarchs to get the messages to the people. Making it forbidden will be one way to capture the youth. Make the ages to use it 25 and up. Make it international, and invite democrats from other nations to be part of this platform. Make sure it is in multiple languages.
I still think Prof. Snyder's analogy is a good one with his 60s Sitcom called Oligarchs' Island.
We see how things will be in the White House office. Trump will have a revolving door of people, who get in, make the contacts they want to to monetize their offices, and then get out or get fired. The US under a Matt Gaetz as AG will not be safe for women at all.
Yes. However, the younger Murdoch who has taken it over is a problem too. Maybe less of one. I also have been told that people are switching from X to Blue Sky as their social media platform.
Heather said in one recent talk that a lack of DM on other platforms is one reason she was still on X. I don't do much social media, but I read that Bluesky introduced a DM system in May.
And I am witness to the defection from X on my FB presence of that also. I cling to the HCR videos and of course this forum via Substack. Those of you responding here are also the mental lifeline I need. I live in a state mainly Democratic, Maryland but we need the rebuilding of the bridge destroyed essentially by Maersk cheap attitude to departing the port and the president elect will not care one whit.
I'd make the age 18 and up - or at least maybe make a feature where the minimum age requirement is the age of majority for your country? So I guess the media site would need some basic or nonspecific location privileges.
18 year olds (at least in the USA) need the info as bad if not worse than 25 year olds; they're just starting to build an identity truly separate from their parents and need reliable information to base their political stances on. I would have LOVED to have something like that at 18.
Lindsey craves the feeling of being relevant more than perhaps anything else.He attaches himself to whoever seems ascendant at the time. First he was John McCain’s groupie, and now he’s Trump’s.
SC voters kept electing Strom Thurmond when he had to be propped upright in a chair. Nearly every time voters have an opportunity to elect someone who cares about the common good, they elect a money grubbing sleazeball.
Because he is their Senator. Incumbency and seniority are the TWO BIGGEST factors in Senate success. Lindsay has both. Look around and see how many incumbent Senators were not selected this year. 3 and they ALL were Democrats, 2 in deep red states (West Virginia and Montana) and the other in Pennsylvania which was down to the wire incredibly close. In a state like South Carolina, if they actually found pictures of Lindsay in lingerie, it would be passed off as a Halloween costume.
According to the rent boys who have popped up occasionally to report on Miz Lindsay's antics, he is sufficiently unattractive even when paying for their services. It's pretty clear that there is dirt on him that the Felon-Elect produced years ago to make him toe the line. Miz L would find it difficult to justify his actions to his white nationalist homophobic supporters were there to be verifiable reports, not just Washington scuttlebutt.
I would say that most people here don't care if Graham is gay. The hypocrisy is what we care about. That being said, for some odd reason, the biggest bible thumpers have blinders on when their chosen indulge in all the deadly sins. It confounds me.
How else could we explain that the former friend of John McCain and Joe Biden (I'm talking having dinner as families together type friends - loyal and loving Senate partners) became a chameleon changing colors at the whim of a man he once considered a liability for Republicans.
In 2016 Graham said. “Looking back, we should have basically kicked him out of the party.”
Asked how that would be done, the South Carolina senator suggested Republicans could have united against him like many are doing now.
“The more you know about Donald Trump, the less likely you are to vote for him. The more you know about his business enterprises, the less successful he looks. The more you know about his political giving, the less Republican he looks,” Graham said. “We should have done this months ago.”
There is a chain of "kompromat" starting with Putin on Trump and Trump on Graham.
I think the Kompromat on Graham is as serious and most likely just as damaging, if not more so, than the kompromat the Russians have on DJT. This whole administration is now starting to put out the foulest of odors of corruption one can imagine. The republicans are due for a nasty fall sometime within the Trump administration. That's my prediction.
That seems to be true. He went from outright enemy to I'll disagree with you openly on some issues I care about to lap dog. Or it's just survival. When his crowd booed him...he knew he had moved outside of survival mode.
Ted, if the rumor mill is any indication, the only "kompromat" on Graham is that he might be gay. It is only kompromat when our society makes that an issue. My wish for him is that he could find whatever internal peace he needs to be himself. That wish is the reason I will never refer to him as "Miss Lindsey".
“While South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham said he would be willing to agree to the appointment, other Republican senators drew a line.”
Does anyone else think that the President elect has compromat on Lyndsey Graham?
You wrote “Does anyone else think that the President elect has compromat on Lyndsey Graham?”
I’d kick it up a notch. I’m more concerned about what kompromat Putin has on Trump.
I thought I read that the night of the election, Russian state TV aired nude photos of Melania. So much for Orange and his close buddy, Vladimir.
Trump is not so much Putin’s friend as he is under Putin’s thumb. The Melania skinpics are just salt in his wounds, and a reminder of who is boss (i.e. not the Orange stain).
Far from salt in sounds, Trump used to show those photos of Melania in his NY office. The man is a sleeze who has zero dignity or sense of decorum.
That was when he was in control.
Context matters. It’s one thing to show them off to individuals in his office. It is quite another to have them made universally available on the interwebs.
Though, I agree, the man is scum.
They've been on the Internet for years yet you'll never find Trump complaining about it. I'd be interested to know if he complains to Putin about it or he knows he's been ridiculed.
Exactly. You are my bitch, Trump. For starters.
Exactly
I always thought she was his controller.
Think of the power dynamic as a situation specific pendulum.
Do you actually think Trump cared about that? Or would say anything if he did? Anyway it looks like that marriage is running on fumes at this point. Ms. Trump apparently refused Jill Biden's invite to tea and hinted that she won't be returning to the White House. No real surprises there. She was pretty much 100% AWOL during the campaign too. I expect they will stay married in name only until his second term is over (or he kicks the bucket) and divorce papers will be filed on Jan. 21, 2029. That seems like so far away!
Yeah, no. People said she would file divorce papers after he lost to Biden in 2020. And then he got hit with all these huge settlement claims from court cases against him. Melania may be waiting for a bigger payoff. Or maybe she, too, is under Putin’s thumb and the nude photos were a warning shot.
After all, if she stays in NY as she plans and lives a parallel life, it’s no big deal to remain married. They’re not even in the same state.
An eternity for us.
What ever the pre marriage agreement was may be the only thing keeping her in place. So much for family values
I'm sure that's true.
I hardly consider the Trumps a "family", though.
Only in the sense of a crime family where each has dirt on the others..
A bunch of biological incidents.
Carole Berkoff,
I do not understand "pre marriage agreements" and may be naive but I also believe she loves their son and wants the best for him during these years while he is receiving his education....for his future.
I think what Putin did was insulting. I should have realized that Trump was displaying her pictures as a matter of manly pride with no consideration towards Melania.
Trump has not hidden who he is...and yet....he has been chosen to lead what once was the greatest nation in the world.
Putin has known all along, he has Trump "in his pocket".
The ultimate undoing of that union will depend on the wording of the prenup, no?
She really doesn’t care.
If nothing else, it may be an opportunity to up the ante with an updated post-nip agreement.
Post-nup agreements are generally not enforceable, only pre-nups.
Actually I might take that back. An original post nup where there was no pre nup is usually unenforceable but you are probably right, a post nup that IMPROVES on a previous pre nup probably would be enforceable.
it's reported that Barron still lives in the Trump tower. Well, I guess that saves us taxpayers some $$, but I wondered if he needs mommy close by that badly.
True.
I'd love a clip of how Putin speaks of Trump to his staff.
Chump and Putin want their marks obedient and painfully aware of how so much worse could happen..
That did happen, it was reported in numerous sites, and also that the on-air personalities were either smirking or outright laughing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHe0LxOQzvM&t=311s
"Tennessee Brando" is so down to earth, it's a shame more of the hill people don't listen and follow his advice.
that was a warning to trump, Putin has nude and worst pictures of Thump
I've seen them. They're all over X
Does Trump care?
Is it just my phone or are the end of a lot of posts being disappeared? Perhaps I have been remiss in my burnt offerings to the iPhone gods?
I agree with Kompromat Putin has on Trump. Further I think Musk along with other world autocrats trump communes with are vehicles for communicating Putin’s advice/commands. A true Manchurian candidate and we have yet to realize how bad it will be. I wish MSM and others would dig more deeply into this profile and broadcast it. Putin’s goal is to disrupt and hobble western democracies which he is achieving; this has been said many times, but I don’t think it’s forefront enough.
Ed Guerrant,
Putin and his buddies are bringing out their treasure trove of pictures and info that should have infuriated Trump. Trump is a coward. He bows before Putin. Putin and his thugs are enjoying every minute. Trump is allowing them to continue to shame him.
This is such a "clown show". How long are we going to continue enduring these insults as Trump and gang take our beloved country away from us and our children and grandchildren!?....as we WATCH!!!!
How long? Well at LEAST four more years as we elected him again just one week ago. At this point it is really on us not him sad to say.
Perhaps Putin has kompromat on Trump, but I honestly doubt he needs it because Trump is his biggest fan boy anyway.
Ed, we should be very concerned by the selection of Gabbard as head of national security. We might as well have a Putin oligarch present in the Oval Office or post our intelligence online.
Trump has already said he wants to remove requirements for security clearance to see certain "evidence". This will certainly be a clown show...
In both cases, I think it involves young boys, possibly even dead young boys. The nudie pics were both an FU and a warning if he doesn't do as told. As the Russian security guy said, he has obligations to those who put him in power
And you think this because? Do you have ANY evidence of this? Or are you just making it up? I really do think as much as we hate Trump we should stay away from totally ignorant speculation. If you KNOW something present the evidence. If not, better to stick with stuff that is not slanderous and unproven.
Putin has Trump in his firm grasp and will use him when it suits him best.
I would love to see the photos. No. Scratch that. I definitely don’t want to see the photos. Ever.
Ha!! Neither do I. Somewhere, Lady Lindsey may be enjoying the kindness of strangers of the type the author of that quote did, yet without the fearlessness and poetry in so doing. I wish him no harm. Yet, I do wish his J. Edgar Hoover-esque hypocrisy to be exposed
If only he'd just go privately enjoy his peculiar tastes in power play in whatever consensual adult manner he chooses - instead of playing them out on a national stage and jeopardizing everyone and anyone else who wants to do so.
Just be honest Lindsey...but it's gone too far. There was a time I had some respect for him...but that's long gone. He's become an evil one, just to stay in power.
Power tends to corrupt. That's a problem.
It happened to my ex-wife...it was amazing to watch first hand. She went from a shy and caring when elected for the first time to kiss my ring and we can talk after she served a term.
Must have been a trip down a dark alley
😢
Headline: Chicken wants Fox to take charge of charge of henhouse.
I was thinking along the lines of Jemima Puddleduck.........either works here....
Pit pat waddle pat.
I want to laugh, and know I shouldn't. Me thinks you have created a trifecta.
The Sun would publish them.....and I'm not interested....as long as minors are not involved or adults who did not consent....
I don't know how you missed them a few years ago. They were unavoidable on the internet. It seems that the MAGA still find their first lady as "classy" even in the soft-core lesbian photos--which is REALLY odd since they hate the LGTBQ+ community. Johnson came right out and said that he and his son have some kind of program to monitor their consumption of porn--I wonder how many times HE viewed those photos?
And why does he even need to be monitored?!?!
Ellen, you must be as shell shocked as I am.....
Yes. If not directly, he has it through Putin. Putin and Musk are friendly, as friendly as egomaniacs can be with anyone. Elon bought the White House for Trump, and attaching himself to Trump's side like a burr is a constant reminder of who Trump really works for.
I have no faith in any Republican and given the number of Democrats that voted for HR 9495 which would give Trump powers to curtail the freedom of speech and action of any social justice organization, publication he deems a "threat" we know that some Democrats are not reliable either. I am grateful that HR 9495 did not pass, and thank my Representative Jonathan Jackson for voting NO! https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9495
We are currently looking at chaos in the DOD and Intelligence community and Homeland Security, as the Jr High will be unleashed on our government thanks to Trump. When Trump first ran for office I would say to my family at dinner time, that Melania is a deep cover Russian agent, and her mission was to marry a prominent American and get him into the White House so he could destroy us from within. I would occasionally say they were a deep cover couple, or Trump was the Russian agent. While I said this in a tongue and cheek way, I know that this was based on my instincts of who they are as people.
Let us hope our weakened Democratic structures, the ones that allowed Putin to interfere with voting in multiple ways including bomb threats in polling places in swing states, can be salvaged and strengthened. Let us hope that Putin cannot gain everyone's ear with the compromat that he has on them, or on Trump. I foresee the chaos makers in the White House Office being just that, along with their Junior High MAGA buddies in Congress. At the same time, these chaos makers did not get a lot done. Musk is a proud chaos maker too, and he bought the presidency for Trump, which is why he is attached to him like a bur, always there, always sticking in his opinion.
The Democrats need to get their own social media platform and their own version of TikTok and get their messages out to the people who missed them. They have 2 years to reclaim Congress. They have to work with disaffected Republicans and former Republicans like those of the Lincoln Project to get their messaging sharp and smart to different age groups. There must be a platform that is free of oligarchs to get the messages to the people. Making it forbidden will be one way to capture the youth. Make the ages to use it 25 and up. Make it international, and invite democrats from other nations to be part of this platform. Make sure it is in multiple languages.
I still think Prof. Snyder's analogy is a good one with his 60s Sitcom called Oligarchs' Island.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-island
We see how things will be in the White House office. Trump will have a revolving door of people, who get in, make the contacts they want to to monetize their offices, and then get out or get fired. The US under a Matt Gaetz as AG will not be safe for women at all.
Get rid of Rupert first of all. The old geezer is a major player as is Lachlan
Yes. However, the younger Murdoch who has taken it over is a problem too. Maybe less of one. I also have been told that people are switching from X to Blue Sky as their social media platform.
Heather said in one recent talk that a lack of DM on other platforms is one reason she was still on X. I don't do much social media, but I read that Bluesky introduced a DM system in May.
And I am witness to the defection from X on my FB presence of that also. I cling to the HCR videos and of course this forum via Substack. Those of you responding here are also the mental lifeline I need. I live in a state mainly Democratic, Maryland but we need the rebuilding of the bridge destroyed essentially by Maersk cheap attitude to departing the port and the president elect will not care one whit.
When will Bluesky replace X as an option with FB on so many platforms. Waiting…
Robin, I don't use these sorts of social media, what is DM?
It stands for "Direct Message" and is basically a private chat feature that is not public like a FB post or an X tweet.
Did Rupert win that court battle?
I'd make the age 18 and up - or at least maybe make a feature where the minimum age requirement is the age of majority for your country? So I guess the media site would need some basic or nonspecific location privileges.
18 year olds (at least in the USA) need the info as bad if not worse than 25 year olds; they're just starting to build an identity truly separate from their parents and need reliable information to base their political stances on. I would have LOVED to have something like that at 18.
I think Lindsey is doing this of his own volition. He's Grima Wormtongue personified.
Lindsey craves the feeling of being relevant more than perhaps anything else.He attaches himself to whoever seems ascendant at the time. First he was John McCain’s groupie, and now he’s Trump’s.
Lindsey Graham has no credibility, he is only loyal to one man. That is Trump even if he likes wearing women's clothes.
lol, and to think what happened to him, you have to watch the extended version to get the picture there.
I don't have an answer to your question but I wonder why voters in South Carolina keep reelecting this guy as their senator...
SC voters kept electing Strom Thurmond when he had to be propped upright in a chair. Nearly every time voters have an opportunity to elect someone who cares about the common good, they elect a money grubbing sleazeball.
Because he is their Senator. Incumbency and seniority are the TWO BIGGEST factors in Senate success. Lindsay has both. Look around and see how many incumbent Senators were not selected this year. 3 and they ALL were Democrats, 2 in deep red states (West Virginia and Montana) and the other in Pennsylvania which was down to the wire incredibly close. In a state like South Carolina, if they actually found pictures of Lindsay in lingerie, it would be passed off as a Halloween costume.
Very unfortunate truth Jon.🥴
Aunt Pittypat speaks.
Seriously, though. Who doesn't know Lindsay Graham is gay? Anyone?
Unless Orange has pix of Graham and large farm animals, I dunno what he could have.
According to the rent boys who have popped up occasionally to report on Miz Lindsay's antics, he is sufficiently unattractive even when paying for their services. It's pretty clear that there is dirt on him that the Felon-Elect produced years ago to make him toe the line. Miz L would find it difficult to justify his actions to his white nationalist homophobic supporters were there to be verifiable reports, not just Washington scuttlebutt.
I would say that most people here don't care if Graham is gay. The hypocrisy is what we care about. That being said, for some odd reason, the biggest bible thumpers have blinders on when their chosen indulge in all the deadly sins. It confounds me.
Listen to the Will Saletan podcast series on the Corruption of Lindsey Graham.
Thank you for this heads-up.
Possibly; when asked by a reporter he answered “we’ll see.
Yes, Ted.
How else could we explain that the former friend of John McCain and Joe Biden (I'm talking having dinner as families together type friends - loyal and loving Senate partners) became a chameleon changing colors at the whim of a man he once considered a liability for Republicans.
In 2016 Graham said. “Looking back, we should have basically kicked him out of the party.”
Asked how that would be done, the South Carolina senator suggested Republicans could have united against him like many are doing now.
“The more you know about Donald Trump, the less likely you are to vote for him. The more you know about his business enterprises, the less successful he looks. The more you know about his political giving, the less Republican he looks,” Graham said. “We should have done this months ago.”
There is a chain of "kompromat" starting with Putin on Trump and Trump on Graham.
I think the Kompromat on Graham is as serious and most likely just as damaging, if not more so, than the kompromat the Russians have on DJT. This whole administration is now starting to put out the foulest of odors of corruption one can imagine. The republicans are due for a nasty fall sometime within the Trump administration. That's my prediction.
Obvious as is Putin’s kompromat on chump.
That seems to be true. He went from outright enemy to I'll disagree with you openly on some issues I care about to lap dog. Or it's just survival. When his crowd booed him...he knew he had moved outside of survival mode.
No I think Lindsey Graham is a very weak reed who has been broken and humiliated and I have no idea why South Carolinians keep re-electing him.
Are you keeding?
Yes-Russian money!!!
Ted, if the rumor mill is any indication, the only "kompromat" on Graham is that he might be gay. It is only kompromat when our society makes that an issue. My wish for him is that he could find whatever internal peace he needs to be himself. That wish is the reason I will never refer to him as "Miss Lindsey".