Porn baron wants Trump dirt
UNITED STATES: Larry Flynt, the pornography publisher, is offering ‘‘up to $10 million’’ to anyone who produces information that leads to President Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office.
‘‘So I decided to do this... let’s see what happens,’’ Flynt wrote on Twitter as he announced the reward, which he described as his ‘‘patriotic duty’’.
Laying out the offer in a fullpage advertisement in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post. It says: ‘‘Buried in Trump’s topsecret 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 states: ‘‘Most worrisome is that, long before a climate change apocalypse strikes, Trump might trigger a nuclear world war.’’
It concludes: ‘‘Impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair but the alternative – three more years of destabilising dysfunction – is worse.’’
There is a telephone 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 Flynt has tried to obtain compromising information on Trump. During last year’s presidential campaign, he offered $1m to anyone who could turn over video or audio capturing Trump behaving in an illegal or sexually demeaning manner.
That followed the release of the 2005 Access Hollywood video in which Trump bragged of imposing himself on women.
Flynt also offered a similar reward in 1998, during the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton and put up a $1m prize for details of Mitt Romney’s tax returns in the 2012 US election.
In January this year Buzzfeed published a dossier compiled by a former British spy that claimed Russia’s secret services hold ‘‘kompromat’’, or embarrassing material used for political blackmail, related to Trump, though the claims have not been substantiated.
The White House did not comment. – Telegraph Group