Look. People are missing the point here. I have no doubt that if Trump went to Russia he hired hookers and if he hired hookers, the FSB has tape of whatever he did with him. But that’s just the Okhrana MVD NKVD KGB FSB being the FSB. They collect that kind of stuff compulsively. But it’s quite beside the point.
The point is that once you become a source or agent of a foreign intelligence service, the mere fact that you’ve done that is in itself all the blackmail material they need. I mean, it’s not like they’re going to get in trouble if they burn you, right? And if you’re stupid enough to ink that devil’s deal, it’s a stick that they’ll be subtly alluding to each time they give you your bag of carrots.
And it’s quite clear that Trump has been exchanging information about Russian oligarch investments in the US (in his own business?) with the FSB in return for intelligence on his real and imagined political enemies for years.
This is what sits in the White House. That’s what the intelligence agencies have finally woken up to. This is what they’ve apparently been testing, far too late, with what spy novelists call “a canary trap” and MI-6 calls “a barium test.” (Feeding suspected moles different versions of intelligence and seeing what happens). And it’s why they’re subjecting him to the death of a thousand leaks.