CNN has covered this today in depth.

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There are many elements of this report that are literally eye-popping and I can see why at this date outlets like CNN have not yet reported on the more salacious details, but in point of fact those details besides being somewhat purient are also relatively illuminating considering the context.

The first thing is that Trump and his campaign have been fully aware and fully informed as to the Russian activities attacking the Clinton campaign and that they openly and regularly shared information for well over a year. To put it another way, Trump and his people not only knew that the Russians were hacking his opponents, they were directly receiving the information Russian intelligence had taken and also given to Wikileaks and the Kremlin’s propaganda arms, RT and Sputnik News.

Not all of this former British agents information came from Russia. Some of it came from and was confirmed by Trump associates inside the campaign. They knew Wikileaks was being used as a front to generate “plausible deniability.” Trump had his own moles inside the DNC. The information exchange went both ways with the Russians providing information on Clinton and Trump providing information on Russian oligarchs inside the U.S. to the Kremlin.

So Trump’s people were spying on behalf of Russia in exchange for inside info on Clinton.

And yet it gets worse.

An ethnic Russian source close to Trump admitted there was a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and Russian leadership, handled by former campaign manager Paul Manafort and foreign policy advisor Carter Page due to Putin hatred and fear of Hillary Clinton. Others involved in clandestine meetings with the Russians included Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

The Russia-hack hysteria aided Trump in multiple ways, in addition to helping his campaign directly the hubbub of “Russia, Russia Russia” also distracted away from some of Trump more problematic business dealings in China.

Apparently all this Russia noise distracted from his businesses in China and elsewhere where a “substantial and involved payment of large bribes and kickbacks” had taken place.

One point of speculation: the memo says that the Russian counterparts who met with Manafort — until the revelation of his receiving kickback from the former President of the Ukraine had him side-lined, an allegation that is confirmed in the memo — Page and Cohen went through consular offices located in New York, DC and Miami.

Could these consular offices have been the same ones that were shuttered by the Obama Administration in retaliation for the Hacks?

Starting on Friday at noon, the White House said, Russia will be denied access to compounds in Maryland and New York that have been used for intelligence-related purposes

If so, then what Obama may have truly been doing by declaring 35 Russian diplomats “persona non grata” is deporting Trump’s handlers out of the country. Just a thought. If he didn’t do that, he should have.

Oh, and then there’s the prostitutes.

“Extensive sexual services?”

Hold onto your lunch folks, this next bit is going to get somewhat “Nasty.” Although Russian intelligence had attempted to compromise Trump with enticing real estate deals he had not be forthcoming in that area. They had heard rumors and allegations of Trump paying bribes and having “sex parties” during a visit to St. Petersburg but where unable — due to his use of intermediary companies — to confirm this or the party. Until….well… this.

However, there were other aspects to TRUMP's engagement with the Russian authorities. One which had borne fruit for them was to exploit personal obsesslons and sexual perversion in order to obtain suitable 'kompromat' [compromising material] on him. According to Source D, where s/he had been present, (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs OBAMA {whom he hated] had stayed on one to the official trips to Russia, defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a ' golden showers' (urination) show in front of him. The hotel was known to be under FSE control with microphones and concealed cameras in all the main rooms to record anything they wanted to.

Uh, eww…. That’s from page #2 btw, right up front. Doing something like that takes a real special kind of vindictive frackhole.

Apparently though they had managed to obtain their Kompromat FSB declined to use it because Trump and his people were being “so co-operative” voluntarily. Although they did begin to gain some “buyers remorse” and heartburn as they grew more concerned their efforts would be discover and wasn’t yet paying off. Eventually they shutdown the Romanian hacker project, although they continue using the “plausibly deniable” disclosures to Wikileaks and amazingly, it appears that Trump may have helped pay some of the hackers himself. [Highlighting mine]

So it seems Trump may have so much to say about who the hackers were because some of them were on his payroll. At this point I’ve literally lost track of the numbers of major and minor crimes that are being alleged to be specifically perpetrated by Trump.

Lastly, did Russia efforts effect the election? Well, it seems, that was exactly the plan.

They were betting that “Educated youth in America… could be persuaded to vote for [Trump] as a protest against the Washington establishment. … The hope was that even if she won, as a result of this Clinton in power would be bogged down working for internal reconciliation in the U.S.” They also hoped that disaffected Bernie supporters could be turned away from Hillary and toward Trump.

Well, when we had voters in the rust belt who felt ignored and short-changed by multi-national corporation and bad trade deals, who had voted twice for Obama and then turned away from Clinton following all the various scandals stovepiped into the public discourse by the FSB and Kremlin disinformation operation who ultimately stayed home or voted for Trump, I would say that worked.

Really well.

Now is it possible everything is these memos may not pan out perfectly? Sure. Michael Cohen is already claiming he’s never been to Prague to meet with Russia intelligence in his life. Fine. The FBI and the CIA are looking into this, but they have been able to confirm some of it or else they wouldn’t have felt enough confidence to including it in the briefing materials, and confirming any of this is certainly not good for Trump or for America.