Por n bar on Flynt offers $10m for damning Trump evidence
LARRY FLYNT, the pornography publisher, is offering “up to $10m (€8.5m)” to anyone who produces information that leads to US President Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office.
“So I decided to do this... let’s see what happens,” Mr Flynt wrote on Twitter as he announced the reward, which he described as his “patriotic duty”.
The offer, in a full-page advert in the Sunday edition of ‘The Washington Post’, says: “Buried in Trump’s top-secret tax returns or in other records from his far-flung investments there may be a smoking gun.
“The attempt to impeach Donald Trump will strike many as a sour-grapes plot by Democrats to overturn a legitimate election,” it continues.
“But there is a strong case to be made that the last election was illegitimate in many ways, and that after nine tumultuous months in office, Trump has proven he’s dangerously unfit to exercise the extreme power accrued by our new ‘unitary executive’.”
Listing a number of reasons for his removal, from “inciting violent civil strife with his racial dog whistling” to “sabotaging” the Paris accord on climate change, the advert stated: “Most worrisome is that, long before a climate change apocalypse strikes, Trump might trigger a nuclear world war.
“Impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair but the alternative – three more years of destabilising dysfunction – is worse.”
There is a phone number and an email address at the bottom of the advert for anyone who wants to take up the offer. The hotline will be staffed on weekdays, between 8.30am and 6pm for the next two weeks, ‘The Washington Post’ reported.
It is not the first time Mr Flynt has tried to obtain compromising information on Mr Trump. During last year’s presidential campaign he offered $1m (€850,000) to anyone who could turn over video or audio capturing Mr Trump behaving in an illegal or sexually demeaning manner. That followed the release of the 2005 video in which Mr Trump bragged of imposing himself on women.
Mr Flynt also offered a similar reward in 1998, during the impeachment trial of former president Bill Clinton.
In January this year, Buzzfeed published a dossier by a former British spy that claimed Russia’s secret services hold embarrassing material used for political blackmail, related to Mr Trump, though the claims have not been substantiated. (© Daily Telegraph, London)