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Per Proof of Collusion, the man Trump watched "golden showers" with in Vegas was the man who offered to send women to Trump's Ritz Moscow room in 2013. He knew Trump liked watching golden showers. What does the Steele dossier say happened in Moscow?

Trump watched golden showers.
PS/ Even today, Kremlin disinformation persists that—contra the language of Steele's dossier—the raw intelligence doc alleges Trump had sex with prostitutes in Moscow. It doesn't say that. It says that he did in Moscow what we now know he did in Vegas: *watched* "golden showers."
PS2/ Indeed, U.S. media called the Ritz Moscow allegations "salacious" to discredit them, but based on all the evidence—and Trump's own statement that his room was almost certainly being videotaped—the Ritz Moscow allegations are actually...*banal*. Obvious and intuitive and sad.
PS3/ Watching "golden showers" in the Ritz Moscow with the same man he watched them with in Vegas just a few months earlier is actually one of the *least* surprising facets of the Trump-Russia story, even as it's actually among the best-documented (Steele dossier entirely aside).
PS4/ I never regarded the tape Trump *concedes* must exist of his activities in the Ritz Moscow as the crux for Putin's leverage over Trump, as that is *amply* covered by Trump's clandestine course of bribery involving Trump Tower Moscow, which I first wrote about in spring 2017.
PS5/ The genius of Trump and the Kremlin was to convince U.S. media that the Ritz Moscow allegation was "salacious"—a code for "improbable"—rather than banal, and confirmed by all the evidence we have. That drew attention away from the far more serious Steele-dossier allegations.
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An earnest and serious question for @DoctorYasmin and other doctors: if "immunity" lasts for "at least" three months," how is "re-infection" at *all* likely *within* 3 months?

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I've spent years harping on the Guardian report confirming the IC probe of Trump-Russia ties began when 7 allied intel agencies contacted the USIC in 2015 telling it that Trump agents were meeting with Russian intel agents in Europe

The GOP has been lying about this since Day 1
PS/ The far right and its agents and allies have been told again and again and again that this was a counterintelligence investigation from the start and was robustly warranted, and each time they come back with some new story about how it was a nefarious *criminal* investigation
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