Jen Psaki and Nancy Pelosi Revive Resistance-Era Conspiracy Theory That Putin Has Dirt on Trump: ‘We’re All Wondering!’

White House Press Secretary turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi teamed up to revive the Resistance-Era conspiracy theory that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has kompromat on Donald Trump on Psaki’s show Monday night.

Pelosi was the first to raise the possibility, wondering aloud of Putin “What does he have on Donald Trump that he have to constantly be catering to Putin? Telling Putin go into these countries, NATO countries.”

“What do you think? We’re all wondering this question, Speaker Pelosi, what do you think Putin has on him?” Psaki asked in reply. “I mean, it sure seems like something, as you’ve said a few times, given that he refuses to criticize him, that he seems to be a fanboy of him. Are you worried?”

“First of all, we must be sure that he does not step one foot into the white House. Not as president or not as anything. He has brought disgrace to the White House, to these presidents,” responded Pelosi before eventually getting around to answering Psaki’s query.

“I don’t know what he has on him, but I think it’s probably financial, I think it’s probably financial. Either something financial he has him on or something on the come,” she submitted.

Trump connections to Russia were investigated for years both prior to and after his election as president. Many progressives speculated that Trump might actually be a Russian agent and that his hypothetical acts treason might be motivated by blackmail. In one particularly pernicious example, the allegation in an opposition research report funded by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign suggested that there might be a tape of Trump being urinated on by Russian prostitutes was lent considerable credibility in left-wing media.

In another, New York Magazine‘s Jonathan Chait theorized that Trump had been a Russian agent since 1987.

None of the formal investigations into the former president — including the one led by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller —  ever turned up evidence to back up the hypothesis.

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