Last night, hours before Obama gave his farewell address, the incoming President, Donald Trump, was hit with some outrageous allegations. It was revealed that top U.S. intelligence officials had briefed Trump, Obama, as well as several members of Congress on a report claiming that the Russians had obtained "compromising personal and financial information" on the President-elect.
The salacious intel that has thus far proven to gain the most attention: Trump allegedly was given "golden showers" by multiple hookers in the Presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton hotel in Moscow. The report says that the lewd incident was set up by Russian intelligence and that every moment of it was caught on video.
Furthermore, Trump is accused of having chosen this particular suite for the golden showers spectacle because he knew the Obamas had stayed there, and he thus wanted to defile the bed they had slept in. According to the report, Russia was well aware of Trump's perversions before attempting to catch him in this particularly extreme encounter.
The report, compiled by a former M16 British intelligence agent whose past work was believed to be credible by U.S. officials, also makes allegations against Trump that are perhaps more damning, though less sensational. It claims that Russia was also responsible for the hacking of the DNC emails that may have swayed the election in favor of Trump, which has been seemingly accepted by U.S. intelligence. Worse yet, there is alleged to have been "a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government."
Should the report prove to be legitimate, the fear is that Trump knowingly allowed Russia to help him get elected and that the Kremlin will be able to blackmail him when he becomes President. The report suggests that the hotel room story is not the only dirt that the Russians have obtained on Trump, though the golden showers scenario should certainly not be downplayed. Imagine the chaos that would ensue upon the leak of such a sordid sex tape involving the already controversial President-elect.
Unsurprisingly, Trump has already responded to the shocking allegations, dismissing the report as "fake news" perpetrated by his political opponents. He calls out U.S. intelligence for allowing the report to be leaked to the public, and then asks, rather alarmingly, "Are we living in Nazi Germany?" The connection does not seem to hold much weight, as it is hard to imagine Nazi intelligence allowing for the release of any unsavory information about its supreme leader.