Is it the "pee tapes", or simply hero worship? While reading the don bacon

[niyad]

thread about him suddenly realizing krasnov is on "team putin", and mention of those tapes, a simple thought occurred. Why assume the tapes are the factor, when it is obvious that krasnov worships putler, just as he worships adolph. No coercion. No blackmail. No threats. Hero worship, and a frantic desire to emulate.

[Deuxcents]

1. Maybe it's both.

[JHB]

2. No reason it can't be both. He's so easy to manupulate, Putin would have had no trouble setting up a one-two punch

A carrot AND stick is always more effective than either one alone.

[moondust]

3. Did someone say emulate?

[niyad]

6. And we are paying for it.

[tanyev]

4. Yeah, there's nothing in Donny's personality that suggests he wants to behave otherwise

but the fear of something embarrassing coming out keeps him in line. There are plenty of other horrifying things about him out there which he calls "fake news" and keeps right on going.

It's plausible that he just really, really wants to be on Team Evil Dictators.

[SheltieLover]

5. I think it's quite likely the pee tapes are eps related

[AZ8theist]

8. I read somewhere Epsteins' first task was blackmailing his "clients"

[sheshe2]

7. Both.

He also has a hard on for Putin. He wants so badly to be a Dick-Ta-tor like his hero.