So with only a week to go until Donald J. Trump officially becomes President Donald J. Trump, the world seems to have somehow gone to another level of craziness. This week BuzzFeed News released an unsubstantiated dossier full of serious allegations, including the fact that the Russian government has a compromising tape of Trump with Russian prostitutes putting on a golden shower show that they plan on using to blackmail him. Now, since these documents were released, there have been some great pieces, including one in The Atlantic from Julia Ioffe (who interviewed Melania Trump for this very publication) that lays out how such a tape would very much be in keeping with Russia's (and Putin's, specifically) modus operandi.

In January 1999, Prosecutor General Yury Skuratov was summoned to the Kremlin by then-President Boris Yeltsin’s chief of staff, who showed him a videotape of “a man who looked like” Skuratov frolicking in bed with two prostitutes. Then he asked Skuratov to resign, even though the prosecutor was in the middle of investigating Yeltsin’s administration for taking bribes from a Swiss firm trying to secure lucrative contracts for Kremlin renovations. It was a grainy tape and Skuratov would later say it was fake, but he submitted his resignation nonetheless. ... The tape is rumored to have been delivered personally to the head of RTR by “a man who looked like the head of the FSB,” who at the time was none other than Vladimir Putin.

But yesterday, in an unearthed interview from The Howard Stern Show in 2001, we were given a small reason to believe that the intelligence report was on to something. Trump and a gossip columnist named A. J. Benza got into an argument on the air in which Benza revealed something Trump had bragged to him about. (The clip starts at 4:20.)

Here's a transcript via Death and Taxes.