Expert on authoritarian regimes suggests that Donald Trump might be using Russian hacked emails to blackmail Republican politicians.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

“The RNC was hacked,” Kendzior said. “We don’t know what happened with those e-mails. We know that Lindsey Graham’s personal e-mails were also hacked and we know that Trump has a long track record of blackmailing and threatening those who he sees as his political opponents. That goes back throughout his entire career.”

Kendzior reminded Reid that many Republicans benefitted in 2016 from millions of dollars of dark money donated by Kremlin-aligned Russian nationals living in the U.S. and that Graham is one of those politicians.

“I think what concerns me most is that they seem afraid,” she said of the Republicans gathered to heap compliments on Trump this week. “They seem unable to stand up for themselves. They lack all dignity.” 

“Trump has berated them, he has insulted them,” Kendzior said. “He’s often gone after their wives and their family members, saying terrible things and yet they prostrate themselves to him. What kind of leader are you? What kind of man are you?”

Let me start off by saying that in almost any other circumstance I would file allegations like this under "bullshit."

But these are not any other circumstances.

Donald Trump appears for all the world like a Mafioso.

And let's face it using hacked emails to control your subordinates is exactly the kind of tactic that a mob boss would use to maintain control and to keep associates under his heel.

There is no proof for this, but I am open to hearing what anybody else comes up with to explain Trump's ability to totally subjugate the entire GOP.

And keep in mind that they are not simply bending to his will, they are genuflecting at his feet.