What percentage of Trumpists—or Americans generally—do you think know the following: that everyone agrees, *including the Trump camp*, that on the night Steele's dossier says Trump was with prostitutes at the Ritz Moscow, his Moscow pals did indeed offer to send him prostitutes?
2/ What percentage of Trumpists—or Americans generally—do you think know that the CIA confirmed to the BBC that the Kremlin has "multiple" compromising tapes of Trump "of a sexual nature," from "multiple" dates and locations, and that the CIA has never retracted its confirmation?
3/ What percentage of Trumpists—or Americans generally—do you think know that the Ritz Moscow witnesses Steele cites are a fraction of the witnesses Western media found, including hotel employees/guests who saw a row in the Ritz lobby over women trying to go up to Trump's room?
4/ What percentage of Trumpists—or Americans generally—do you think know that *every person* in Trump's circle, including Trump, has given contradictory statements about what happened at the Ritz Moscow, and that *every key Trump witness* has been caught telling at least one lie?
5/ What percentage of Trumpists—or Americans generally—know that, though Trump claims he "knew" his Ritz room was audio/video recorded, former Hungarian model Kata Sarka said, *before Steele's dossier came out*, that Trump asked her back to his room that night for adulterous sex?
6/ What percentage of Trumpists—or Americans generally—know that no *baseline* facts of Steele's account are contested, e.g. the room was bugged, a member of Trump's entourage ran a brothel, Moscow's prostitute community says the event happened, and top UK journalists say it did?
7/ My point is this: I don't know if it happened, and haven't said I know. Steele didn't say that he knows that it happened. Maddow didn't say that she knows. And *Horowitz* doesn't claim to know. All we know is, media ignored the allegation because it considered it too prurient.
8/ I wrote a whole chapter in PROOF OF COLLUSION congregating the proof that exists worldwide that the "most salacious" allegation in the Steele dossier is true. Virtually none of the information comes from the dossier. The chapter draws no final conclusions about the allegation.
9/ Nor did my chapter on the allegation draw from the sort of background data veteran criminal investigators take very seriously, such as the fact that Trump regularly cheats on his wife, regularly lies about his sexual escapades, and exhibits no caution about his infidelities.
10/ I say, as a former criminal investigator/defense lawyer:
1️⃣ If you say the Ritz event "definitely didn't happen," you're an abject moron who can't read data.
2️⃣ If you say you've proof it "definitely" happened, you're a liar.
3️⃣ Current odds are about 50/50 that it happened.
1️⃣ If you say the Ritz event "definitely didn't happen," you're an abject moron who can't read data.
2️⃣ If you say you've proof it "definitely" happened, you're a liar.
3️⃣ Current odds are about 50/50 that it happened.
CONCLUSION/ It's no coincidence that the dossier is, on the Trump/Trumpist side, the *single most lied-about piece of evidence* in the whole Russia investigation, even as it is, simultaneously, the piece of evidence Trump and Manafort were most nervous about when it was released.
SOURCE/ If you want to read real facts about the Russia case—including the Ritz allegation—derived wholly from major media and without any personal editorializing, my 2018 book PROOF OF COLLUSION will offer you a sober assessment free of internet bullsh*t. amazon.com/Proof-Collusio…
PS/ I just realized I forgot the most important piece of info virtually no Trumpists are aware of: the Ritz allegation *doesn't involve sex*. Let me repeat: it *doesn't involve sex*. It involves Trump watching women pee on a bed. Trumpist radicals have (oddly) tried to hide that.
PS2/ Many of you say I'm being generous to Trump in calling the odds the Ritz allegation is true 50/50 rather than 75/25. In a sense, you're right: my experience and training in working with career criminals like Trump tells me 75/25. The highly conservative odds would be 50/50.
