What Trump fears the most

The Washington Post provides a link to the Democrats' memo countering the Repug House Intelligence Committee memo that claimed the FBI was unfairly targeting Carter Page based primarily on the Steele dossier.

Recall that Trump's relationship with Russia is featured in the Steele dossier, which the media calls mostly "unconfirmed."

NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman the other day:

...either Trump’s real estate empire has taken large amounts of money from shady oligarchs linked to the Kremlin — so much that they literally own him; or rumors are true that he engaged in sexual misbehavior while he was in Moscow running the Miss Universe contest, which Russian intelligence has on tape and he doesn’t want released...

On page 2 of the Steele dossier we find the account of what Friedman is referring to:

3. However, there were other aspects to TRUMP's engagement with the Russian authorities. One which had borne fruit for them was to exploit TRUMP's personal obsessions and sexual perversion in order to obtain suitable 'kompromat' (compromising material) on him. According to Source D, where s/he had been present, TRUMP's 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 of their official trips to Russia, and 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 FSB[successor to the KGB] control with microphones and concealed cameras in all the main rooms to record anything they wanted to.

4. The Moscow Ritz Carlton episode involving TRUMP reported above was confirmed by Source E,[redacted] who said that s/he and several of the staff were aware of it at the time and subsequently. S/he believed it had happened in 2013. Source E provided an introduction for a company ethnic Russian operative to Source F, a female staffer at the hotel when TRUMP had stayed there, who also confirmed the story. Speaking separately in June 2016, Source B (the former top level Russian intelligence officer) asserted that TRUMP's unorthodox behavior in Russia over the years had provided the authorities there with enough embarrassing material on the now Republican presidential candidate to be able to blackmail him if they so wished.

Trump may be worried about money laundering and outright collusion with Russia by his campaign. But I bet the above is what worries him the most, since the Russians surely have videos they can release whenever they choose.

Either way Trump is going down and the sooner the better.

Later: In the New Yorker piece linked below, Jeffrey Toobin on the above: "The accusation seems unlikely, though not impossible, and Trump has denied the validity of the dossier." Of course he denies it. But what we've learned about this contemptible human being in the last year makes it to my "probable" list. Nothing is beneath this man.

See also Jeffrey Toobin's Trump's Miss Universe Gambit in the New Yorker and The Nunes Memo Is Fake and the Russia Scandal Is Very Real.