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In an act of blatant thuggery unprecedented in the history of his office, Trump tweeted:

James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.

Every time I think that Donnie can no longer shock us, he shocks us. It is hard to argue that this tweet dpes not meet the legal definition of extortion.

With this statement, Trump admits that he believes in governance by kompromat. If one of Putin's underlings defies him, Russians can expect to see video of said underling's sexual escapades on television. If Trump defies Putin, the world will either see the pee-pee tape or (more likely) will learn the unsavory details about Trump's finances.

This is the world we now inhabit.

Josh Marshall has opined that any such "tape" is fictitious. Sorry, but that's wishful thinking. Everything in Trump's history proves that he thinks and acts like a mob boss -- and a mob boss would not issue such a threat without something to back it up. Of course, that something might not be an actual recording; it could be the knowledge that Comey said something in private that he might not want the world to know. In other words, the tweet exists to press Comey's paranoia button: "Was I or was I not on Candid Camera?"

Comey has said that he is "not worried about any tapes." Not entirely reassuring, since one would expect a proud man to say "I'm not worried" even if he was sweating and hyperventilating with angst. Pay more heed to what Comey does than to what he says:

The source said Comey is likely not going to testify next week to Senate intelligence. As of Friday morning, Comey had not responded to the request.

In other words, he's worried.

LBJ used to say that "I don't trust a man unless I have his pecker in my pocket." That's how Trump operates: A pocket full of peckers. That's why Trump kept Comey on: At some point, a pecker was pocketed.

And that's why we cannot trust any replacement Trump chooses. The new guy -- whoever he is, however impressive his credentials may seem -- will be in the pocket.

That's why we cannot trust either the House or Senate intelligence committees. James Jesus Angleton once said that if the CIA couldn’t find out its own future from tapping the Hill, it had no business being in intelligence. Russell Tice of the NSA (used as a source by the NYT) once said:

They went after–and I know this because I had my hands literally on the paperwork for these sort of things–they went after high-ranking military officers; they went after members of Congress, both Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence committees and on the armed services committees and some of the–and judicial.

But they went after other ones, too. They went after lawyers and law firms. All kinds of–heaps of lawyers and law firms. They went after judges. One of the judges is now sitting on the Supreme Court that I had his wiretap information in my hand. Two are former FISA court judges.

They went after State Department officials. They went after people in the executive service that were part of the White House–their own people.

There is, in fact, a long history of the intelligence services spying on members of the intelligence committee.

But the problem isn't just our own spooks. It's the FSB. It's private firms like Cambridge Analytica, owned by Trump funder (and Steve Bannon's former boss) Robert Mercer.

I don't know why liberals speak as though this is the beginning of the end for Trump. It's the beginning of the end of democracy, as we enter a new era of brutish criminality. Welcome to Kompromat Kountry.

Cute, eh? The White House claimed that Comey had lost the respect of the rank and file -- yet Trump himself dare not visit FBI headquarters.

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