Yeah, I find it really hard to believe that given all the lies by everyone surrounding Trump when it comes to Russia, including to lies congress and to the special counsel, that there wasn't some quid pro quo talk with the Russians and some coordination, at least with Manafort, if not with Stone and Trump Jr (who Rep Jackie Spier has said lied to congress in his testimony).
I expect there is financial kompromat on Trump too, Steele had even come across Trump before in his investigation into an international gambling and money-laundering ring purportedly run by a suspected Russian organized-crime figure named Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, who lived in Trump Tower and who showed up at the Miss Universe contest in Moscow, and sat near the pageant’s owner, Donald Trump, while Tokhtakhounov was a fugitive on a “red notice” calling for his arrest from Interpol.
The pee tape kompromat is funny and all, but Steele has said he is only 50/50 on it being true, and the intelligence could very well have just been a distortion of the true story of Trump taking some Azerbaijanis to a lewd Vegas show:
"in the early-morning hours of June 15, 2013, some five months before the alleged Moscow incident, Trump visited a Las Vegas night club called the Act that was infamous for its sexually explicit theatre shows. Among the skits regularly performed at the Act were two in which semi-nude women would simulate urination onstage. As Isikoff and Corn note, it is unclear whether these skits were performed on the night that Trump visited the club. But court records confirm that they were in the club’s regular repertoire.
The reason that court records exist at all is that the Act’s obscene entertainment was, at the time of Trump’s visit, the target of a joint undercover investigation by the Nevada Gaming Control Board and the club’s landlord, the Palazzo hotel and casino—which is owned by Sheldon Adelson, a major Republican Party donor. A few months after Trump visited the Act, a Nevada state judge issued an injunction against the club, shutting down its “lewd” and “offensive” performances. In the course of the legal wrangling, investigators submitted detailed descriptions of the the Act’s shows. These, according to court records, included “simulated masturbation, simulated use of narcotics, use of dildos, strap-on penises, simulated defecation, and simulated urination.” In one skit, titled “Hot for Teacher,” an actor in the role of a professor would write an obscene title for a lecture on a blackboard, after which female actors purporting to be college girls would disrobe and stand over the professor, appearing to urinate on him, before revealing a water bottle. In another skit, according to the court records, two women would drink from champagne flutes and snort a white powdery substance, after which they would undress, and one would simulate urinating on the other, who would catch the liquid in two wine glasses and then drink it."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news...las-vegas-adds-intrigue-to-the-steele-dossier
