Politics

<p>On Wednesday night, &quot;the firm behind an explosive dossier,&quot; AKA the <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/golden-showers-tweets-donald-trump-peeing/">pee-tape that sent the internet into hysterics</a> back in January, appeared before the House Intelligence Committee.</p><p>Once there, they refused to testify about who funded the report&#39;s production, arguing that that testifying would &quot;breach their clients&#39; confidentiality,&quot; according to <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-dossier-golden-shower-688140" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>. &quot;No American should have to experience today&#39;s indignity,&quot; <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/fusion-gps-trump-dossier-russia-congress-243916" target="_blank">stated their lawyer</a>. </p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th. Who paid for it, Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/920981920787386368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The following morning, Trump weighed in on the pee-tape. &quot;Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th,&quot; wrote Trump. &quot;Who paid for it, Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?&quot;</p><p>Twitter was again delighted, as they are with <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/pee-tape-james-comey-donald-trump/">any new mention of the dossier</a>. Mainly, they wanted to know if Trump&#39;s tweet meant that, indeed, the pee-pee tape was real:</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So the dossier is real then?</p>&mdash; HillReporter.com (@HillReporter) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillReporter/status/920982129764392960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The pee pee tape is real. <a href="https://t.co/vedjXNGsz4">https://t.co/vedjXNGsz4</a></p>&mdash; Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) <a href="https://twitter.com/ErickFernandez/status/920992753969967105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/kombiz/status/920992024156954624</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/JaredKahlenberg/status/920991700360749056</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">THE PEE TAPE IS REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL <a href="https://t.co/3DpfFI7ekO">https://t.co/3DpfFI7ekO</a></p>&mdash; Sharpie Expert (@Husaria) <a href="https://twitter.com/Husaria/status/920990747888947202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">pee pee tape is coming</p>&mdash; Antifa #BLM James (@wetcasements) <a href="https://twitter.com/wetcasements/status/920990463401664514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Good morning the pee Tape is real <a href="https://t.co/7dPuqs8LCT">https://t.co/7dPuqs8LCT</a></p>&mdash; Casey (@BaseyCrock) <a href="https://twitter.com/BaseyCrock/status/920988711097196546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The dossier, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia?utm_term=.mnlarYDnN#.jlO13YPmp" target="_blank">published in its entirety by BuzzFeed</a>, alleged that Russian authorities could exploit a video they may have taken of Trump watching prostitutes &quot;perform a &#39;golden showers&#39; (urination) show in front of him&quot; in a room &quot;he knew President and Mrs OBAMA (whom he hated) had stayed [in] on one of their official trips to Russia.&quot;</p><p>According to <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-dossier-golden-shower-688140" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>, the report &quot;was initially financed by anti-Trump Republicans before being continued by Democrats during the 2016 general election.&quot;</p><p>While most of Trump&#39;s detractors on Twitter couldn&#39;t help screaming IS THE PEE TAPE REAL, Trump&#39;s morning tweet had other implications. The more serious side of the conversation put Trump&#39;s latest conspiracy theory into context:</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump is now questioning whether a U.S. Intel agency paid for a dossier about him and whether they coordinated with a foreign power on it. <a href="https://t.co/50ySwrNuag">https://t.co/50ySwrNuag</a></p>&mdash; Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/920983892663918592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">in case you&#39;re interested, the president of United States just accused the FBI of engaging in treason with Russia <a href="https://t.co/nnYv1s55Mb">https://t.co/nnYv1s55Mb</a></p>&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/920986464644747266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The president just suggested that the FBI paid for a dossier with intel about him. The FBI is in the U.S. government. <a href="https://t.co/LESUhYdt15">https://t.co/LESUhYdt15</a></p>&mdash; Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/920982065293791232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The president has, again, created an entire news cycle about whether he believes the FBI is a rogue agency within the U.S. govt.</p>&mdash; Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/920982332022063104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump suggests that the FBI paid for the Steel dossier. Huge accusation to make. <a href="https://t.co/ZhGkufMdZx">https://t.co/ZhGkufMdZx</a></p>&mdash; Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/920985833674629120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>That&#39;s a bit more depressing than screaming pee-pee tape into the ether with a thousand exclamation points, so please allow me this moment of joy so I don&#39;t have to question what effect this will actually have on the country:</p><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3oeHLDFn5mMHZb5ngs" width="480"></iframe> <p>Ahem, pee tape.</p> </div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Trump woke up and tweeted about the pee-tape. Twitter has one question.

Mitchell Friedman

On Wednesday night, &quot;the firm behind an explosive dossier,&quot; AKA the pee-tape that sent the internet into hysterics back in January, appeared before the House Intelligence Committee.Once there, they refused to testify about who funded the report&#39;s production, arguing that that testifying would &quot;breach their clients&#39; confidentiality,&quot; according to Newsweek. &quot;No American should have to experience today&#39;s indignity,&quot; stated their lawyer. Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th. Who paid for it, Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 19, 2017 The following morning, Trump weighed in on the pee-tape. &quot;Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th,&quot; wrote Trump. &quot;Who paid for it, Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?&quot;Twitter was again delighted, as they are with any new mention of the dossier. Mainly, they wanted to know if Trump&#39;s tweet meant that, indeed, the pee-pee tape was real:So the dossier is real then?&mdash; HillReporter.com (@HillReporter) October 19, 2017 The pee pee tape is real. https://t.co/vedjXNGsz4&mdash; Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) October 19, 2017 https://twitter.com/kombiz/status/920992024156954624https://twitter.com/JaredKahlenberg/status/920991700360749056THE PEE TAPE IS REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL https://t.co/3DpfFI7ekO&mdash; Sharpie Expert (@Husaria) October 19, 2017 pee pee tape is coming&mdash; Antifa #BLM James (@wetcasements) October 19, 2017 Good morning the pee Tape is real https://t.co/7dPuqs8LCT&mdash; Casey (@BaseyCrock) October 19, 2017 The dossier, published in its entirety by BuzzFeed, alleged that Russian authorities could exploit a video they may have taken of Trump watching prostitutes &quot;perform a &#39;golden showers&#39; (urination) show in front of him&quot; in a room &quot;he knew President and Mrs OBAMA (whom he hated) had stayed [in] on one of their official trips to Russia.&quot;According to Newsweek, the report &quot;was initially financed by anti-Trump Republicans before being continued by Democrats during the 2016 general election.&quot;While most of Trump&#39;s detractors on Twitter couldn&#39;t help screaming IS THE PEE TAPE REAL, Trump&#39;s morning tweet had other implications. The more serious side of the conversation put Trump&#39;s latest conspiracy theory into context:Trump is now questioning whether a U.S. Intel agency paid for a dossier about him and whether they coordinated with a foreign power on it. https://t.co/50ySwrNuag&mdash; Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 19, 2017 in case you&#39;re interested, the president of United States just accused the FBI of engaging in treason with Russia https://t.co/nnYv1s55Mb&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 19, 2017 The president just suggested that the FBI paid for a dossier with intel about him. The FBI is in the U.S. government. https://t.co/LESUhYdt15&mdash; Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 19, 2017 The president has, again, created an entire news cycle about whether he believes the FBI is a rogue agency within the U.S. govt.&mdash; Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 19, 2017 Trump suggests that the FBI paid for the Steel dossier. Huge accusation to make. https://t.co/ZhGkufMdZx&mdash; Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) October 19, 2017 That&#39;s a bit more depressing than screaming pee-pee tape into the ether with a thousand exclamation points, so please allow me this moment of joy so I don&#39;t have to question what effect this will actually have on the country: Ahem, pee tape. 

After the firm responsible for the "pee tape" dossier testified in front of Congress, Donald Trump took to Twitter to launch his take on the situation.