Two bits of oppo in the fountain.

First we should always consider the source.

Second, I know some of you have heard about two pieces of opposition research that some prominent Republican #NeverTrump people have been alluding to for the last couple of weeks. Well Rick Wilson decided to illuminate it a bit more via Twitter.

1) Kompromat: Via a series of tweets Rick Wilson says that there is common knowledge that Russia indeed has компромат or “compromising materials about a politician or other public figure.”

x 1. Compromat story has made the rounds with enough granularity and specificity in intel circles that the majors all chased it. Ã¢ÂÂ Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 7, 2016

More and an explanation why it was not discussed more and that major networks know about it and have gone after it...

x 4. And btw I mean MAJOR have chased it. High editorial cliff to climb. Ã¢ÂÂ Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 7, 2016

a follow up:

x Looping back on the compromat story...it's both hideous and from several accounts has a racial element. #classy Ã¢ÂÂ Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 7, 2016

This was alluded to but not confirmed a few days ago in THIS piece in Death And Taxes:

Filling in the gaps for you, and finally getting back to the lede, journos and political operatives have rumored that Trump got into Putin’s pocket via participation in Russian orgies. Yes, we’re talking about the possible existence of a Trump sex tape.

And referred to in Kurt Eichenwald’s piece for Newsweek HERE (thanks to themank)

Both Trump and Clinton were monitored by Russian intelligence during their visits to Moscow over the years, according to American and European intelligence sources, in hopes of gathering kompromat—compromising material about a politician or public figure. The dossier on Clinton mainly contains recordings of conversations and intercepted phone calls; the intelligence source said the dossier has been controlled by Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman. When she was secretary of state, however, Clinton knew her conversations in Moscow might be recorded, so the dossier appears to have been used mainly for intelligence rather than to embarrass her with allies, the source said. The Kremlin also has both video and audio recordings of Trump in a kompromat file. Newsweek could not confirm if there is anything compromising in those recordings.

Eck…

2) Abortion(s): Now this has been discussed briefly in some diary entries (Mattrek HERE) and many of us have all agreed it was speculation. Though I had a feeling this actually had some legs but the person who would admit it was probably in a bind with the NDA. Rick Wilson pitches it as a series of questions a reporter could ask, and cycles back to fellow #NeverTrumper and Libertarian Liz Mair:

x 2. Have you ever paid for an abortion or caused someone to do so? How many? Who administers these requests if not you? Ã¢ÂÂ Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 7, 2016

x 4. Have you ever had your legal other staff issue cease and desist/NDA warning letters to women? Ã¢ÂÂ Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 7, 2016

x 5. To whom did you say 'The last call they get to me is 'Donald, I'm late.'" Ã¢ÂÂ Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 7, 2016

Anyway I had a feeling these right wing people would eventually cough up the info, I think it is too late and won’t make it in the news. I also am not so sure if either is accurate. I just wanted to put up the info and the people behind it. I don’t see it coming out in the MSM but you never know.

Get out and vote, make those last calls, knock on doors and let’s win this thing. I look forward to our posts on the other side of Tuesday where this sleazeball will be tossed into the dustbin of history.