Friday, November 10, 2017

The pee tape just got that much more believable

September 20
[Longtime Trump aide Keith] Schiller, a former security chief to Trump who is close to the president, had been telling confidants for weeks that he was close to leaving, according to numerous reports. Schiller was said to be unhappy about having his access to the president reduced by new White House chief of staff John Kelly

The former Trump aide has also reportedly been unhappy with the reduced paycheck he was forced to take upon joining the administration. CNN reports his White House salary at $165,000, a significant drop from his former earnings in the Trump Organization, where he earned $294,000 a year.

Schiller has worked for Trump in New York since at least 1999 and began serving as Trump’s director of security in 2004. Until Wednesday, he served in the White House as director of Oval Office operations.

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters earlier this month that rumors of Schiller's departure were "not true" and that Schiller planned to stay in the administration.

  The Hill
She lies every time she opens her mouth.

But...that's not the point here.

November 10
[President Donald Trump's long-time confidant Keith] Schiller privately testified that he rejected a Russian offer to send five women to then private-citizen Trump's hotel room during their 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant.

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Schiller was asked about the Daily Caller article, and he confirmed a Russian made the offer to send the women to Trump's room which was raised around lunch-time, sources said. He was asked who made the offer, but he could not recall the identity of the individual, sources said.

[...]

Multiple sources said the offer to send women to Trump's room came from a Russian who was accompanying Emin Agalarov, a pop star whose father is a billionaire oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and who worked with Trump to bring the pageant to Moscow. But Schiller said the offer did not come from Agalarov himself, the sources said, disputing the Daily Caller report on that matter.

[...]

On their way up to Trump's hotel room that night, Schiller told the billionaire businessman about the offer and Trump laughed it off, Schiller told the House intelligence committee earlier this week.

After several minutes outside of Trump's door, which was Schiller's practice as Trump's security chief, he said he left.

  CNN
Really? Who was guarding Trump's very large body after that?  And, who went in?
Schiller denied knowing about the salacious allegations contained in the dossier. He was also asked about a wide-range of issues, including meetings between Trump associates and Russians, and he denied having knowledge of many of those interactions, sources said.

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Moreover, he denied knowing about the deliberations around the firing of FBI Director James Comey, saying he was only called into (sic) deliver a letter with the news to the FBI.
I know nothing. I.e., there's a lot to know.

I offer the following with the caveat that I haven't tried to verify the claims.



Okay on the first part, but I don't see how that ensures Congress won't look for any other guard.


While it may protect Kremlin agents (or at least be intended to do so), I don't see how this limits potential witnesses.  On the contrary, I would think it would encourage Mueller to seek out other witnesses for verification of Schiller's tesitmony.


Here's that thread.  Read it for yourself.  It does indeed sound like Putin was setting Trump up to be compromised, something I understand is SOP for high profile Americans in Russia.  Especially if they're as easily stroked as Trump.

Here's a bit that I hadn't heard before and have not corroborated...


And, purportedly peed on the bed the Obamas slept in at Trump's direction.  Stupid stuff, but compromising nonetheless if on tape.  Well, it might have been at election time.  Although, for the life of me, if he'd already gotten away with the pussy grabbing tape, why would he worry about this one?  There's even more to the story, I think.

Schiller is hoping to stay out of the deal.


But he's not compromised by women peeing on a bed.  He's compromised by dealing with Russian mobsters and money laundering.  It's the business aspects of whatever it was he did in Moscow.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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