If there was any doubt that the “golden showers” case is a full-fledged security crisis, it should have been eliminated on Saturday. It turns out that numerous intelligence agencies believe that there’s a there there, and are investigating the prospect that Trump was indeed compromised.
Two Israeli intelligence officials told BuzzFeed that the “golden showers” dossier has been circulating around the global intelligence community for several months—and that the allegations in it aren’t the only concern. One of them said that he and many of his counterparts around the world are looking into “the extent to which Trump might have ties, or have a weakness of some type, to Russia.”
One of those angles might be illegal campaign donations. The BBC reports that the CIA is looking into reports that Russia donated to Trump’s campaign.
BuzzFeed also revealed that it obtained the dossier from Israeli intelligence, who in turn got it from an unnamed country in Western Europe. According to the BBC, one of the Baltic states forwarded the memo to Washington.
Hmmm—if BuzzFeed had told us this sooner, could Trump have been brought down last week? I would like to think so. After all, had it revealed at the same time that it released the memo that it was being investigated by multiple intelligence officials around the world, Trump would have looked like a fool when he screamed “fake news!”
That being said, though, if multiple intelligence agencies around the world are this nervous, then there can be no doubt—this is a five-alarm security crisis.
Trump’s only response so far?
OANN is One America News Network, a hard-right cable channel that makes Fox News and Newsmax look like models of objectivity. If that’s the best you can do, Donald, then it’s time for you to either stand down before Saturday or prepare your resignation letter after you’re sworn in. After all, if there is anything at all to this dossier, you have no business in the people’s house.