{"id":283991,"date":"2018-09-07T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=283991"},"modified":"2018-09-07T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:06:08","slug":"kompromat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kompromat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kompromat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cSomething is rotten in Denmark&#8221; from Shakespeare\u2019s play Hamlet. It implies corruption, that\u00a0something has gone wrong in an organization or situation.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0Trump frequently calls Special Counsel Mueller\u2019s investigation of campaign 2016 collusion (now called conspiracy) with Russians a \u201crigged witch hunt\u201d and \u201call a big hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoax? What exactly is it that 45 smokes? As he breaks security wheel spokes inviting Russians into the Oval Office, looking for a witche\u2019s broom? find one in the Oval Office room. Looking for security leaks? find some when 45 with Russians speaks. Looking for a KGB agent we should fear? Find Putin in private talks in Trump\u2019s narcissistic mirror.<\/p>\n<p>A Trump tweet, Monday, July 16, 2018 \u201c\\Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse, many years of US foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!\u201d The Russian Foreign Ministry response was \u201cWe agree\u201d. Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R), \u201cThe European countries are our friends, and the Russians are not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Russian politics \u201ckompromat\u201d is short for \u201ccompromising material\u201d It is damaging information about a politician or other public figure used to create negative publicity for blackmail or for ensuring loyalty. Here the Steele Dossier comes into play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How many angels can fit on V. Putin\u2019s head? How many angels can fit on a Russian king-size bed? How many angels does it take to stop the witch hunt? How many angels does it take to stop 45\u2019s right wing front? How many angels have been falling due to Trump\u2019s calling? How many angels will have to use axes to break open the locked box with Trump\u2019s income taxes. How many angels does it take to pressure Trump to say something \u2018measure for measure\u2019 about Putin and ruble treasure? How many angels forsooth until DJT begins to tell the truth?<\/p>\n<p>Something is rotten in Washington D.C.\u00a0<br \/>\nDoes it bother you as much as it bothers me?<br \/>\na witch speaks in Shakespeare\u2019s Macbeth,<br \/>\n\u201cdouble double toil and trouble\u2026\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\na partial witch hunt recipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSomething is rotten in Denmark&#8221; from Shakespeare\u2019s play Hamlet. It implies corruption, that\u00a0something has gone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22604,4323,455,22605],"class_list":["post-283991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-find-putin","tag-oval-office","tag-russia","tag-special-counsel-mueller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}