The pee tape is probably real.
NYT: G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russia:The report also raised the possibility that, during that trip, Mr. Trump spent the night with two young women who joined him the next morning at a business meeting with the mayor of Moscow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html
Guardian: US Senate report goes beyond Mueller to lay bare Trump campaign's Russia links:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/18/donald-trump-us-senate-report-russia-campaign
The committee is dismissive of the dossier by the ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, which alleged that the Kremlin had been cultivating Donald Trump for at least five years, but stops short of offering an opinion on whether the allegations within it are true. That dossier contained an allegation that Russia spied on Trump during a visit to Moscow in November 2013 and filmed him in his private suite at the Ritz-Carlton hotel with two prostitutes. Trump strenuously denies the claim.
However, the Senate report offers the most compelling account yet of what went on inside the hotel. It alleges that a suspected Russian intelligence officer is stationed permanently in the building and presides over a “network” of security cameras, some of them hidden inside guest rooms. The officer’s agency is redacted, but is likely to be the FSB, the spy agency Vladimir Putin headed, in charge of counter-intelligence.
The report says: “The committee found that the Ritz Carlton in Moscow is a high counterintelligence risk environment. The committee assesses that the hotel likely has at least one permanent Russian intelligence officer on staff, government surveillance of guests’ rooms, and the regular presence of a large number of prostitutes, likely with at least the tacit approval of Russian authorities.
It adds: “According to two former employees of the Ritz Carlton in Moscow, in 2013 there was at least one [redacted] officer permanently stationed at the hotel. This non-uniformed officer was believed to be a [redacted] and had access to the hotel’s property management system, guest portfolios and notations, as well as the network of “hundreds” of security cameras at the hotel.
“The [redacted] was believed to be able to monitor the camera feeds from his office.”
The committee, which spent three years taking evidence for its report, also examined previous trips by Trump to Russia. It says that during a 1996 visit, Trump attended a party for a group of American investors at the Baltschug Kempinski hotel. The party was arranged by David Geovanis, a Moscow-based businessman who the report says has links to the Russian security services.
The report notes: “In some circles of the US expatriate business community in Moscow, it has been common for visiting businessmen to be taken to nightclubs or parties where prostitutes are present. It is likely that Russian security or intelligence services capitalize on those opportunities to collect information.
“During the 1990s and into the 2000s, David Geovanis developed a reputation in Moscow, in part as a host for visiting businessmen.”
It goes on to say that Trump “may have begun a brief relationship with a Russian woman” he met at the Geovanis party. Her name is blacked out. One source of the information is Theodore Liebman, an architect who lived in Moscow and New York in the 1990s, and who travelled to Russia with Trump to the event. Geovanis has spoken to journalists and is reluctant to visit the US, the committee notes.
Scott Horton, a lecturer at Columbia law school, said on Tuesday the Senate committee’s report “confirms nearly everything” about Trump’s ties to Moscow. He said it vindicated claims by the Democrats and others that the campaign had indeed colluded with the Russians – something Trump has vehemently denied.
“The committee offers a much deeper view into the intelligence collected by US authorities than does the much sketchier Mueller report. It will support the view that Mueller, far from exonerating Trump, simply expected to pass the baton to Congress to conduct deeper inquiries.”
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2020/08/americas-worst-humans_19.html#comment-5036745323
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Since turning about 60, I feel like I have so much clarity! Doesn't mean I can predict what's going to happen...goddess knows... 
But I "see." I "know." For example, right from wrong; good from bad.
I unfortunately have been exposed to toxic trumpism in a couple settings recently which threatened to derail me - or at least drive me insane!
But I got hold of myself, removed the threats, and am back on track! Sure in my support of progressive positions; clear about truth, reality, and lies despite the obfuscation, chaos, and propaganda; committed to doing my part as an elder to move this country forward - come what may!
I'm a lucky crone!
When I turned 50, I got a tattoo of the Celtic symbol for the triple goddess...maiden, mother and crone. 50 felt like such a transition...at least it did for me. No fucks left to give except for what’s really important. My BS detector is in full gear these days and I don’t have time for crap. We ought to have a crone sorority...maybe we already do.
I hold onto that Gandhi quote to reassure me that this will pass, but there are times when it is hard. This has all been so overwhelming.
That's when I try to take it one day at a time!
I know all about crone intuition, and it is real. Trust it!
evidence that is under the purview of a few select individuals in the GRU. Look how hard it has been to get any details about the DVDs and photographs hidden in Jeffrey Epstein's safe.
He appreciates Little Trumpy and his dealmaking. They are equals. 
I don't know if the pee thing is true but using germaphobia as an excuse sure isn't believable to me.
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