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In terms of legal issues? Yeah, that's kinda limited.
But in terms of personal issues? Trump doesn't like to be personally embarrassed. Like really doesn't like to be personally embarrassed. It's been said that his entire presidential run is because he was offended by an Obama joke. He is deathly afraid of being personally embarrassed as he believes others will perceive it as weakness and he'll lose the admiration he so desperately seeks. I swear you could burn $10 billion of his own personal money (or whatever he's worth) directly in front of him and show everybody a picture of how small his dick is and he'd be infinitely more pissed over the dick pic. That's his weakness. Deathly fear of personal embarrassment on the world stage, and Trump has proven time and time again he will give you whatever you want if it means he isn't personally embarrassed.
Maybe it's the "pee pee tapes". Maybe he got actual pictures from Stormy Daniels proving Trump really does have a small dick. There could be all sorts of skeletons in Trump's closet that he doesn't want coming out. It's been obvious for years that he has something to hide, will go to extraordinary lengths to cover it up, and doesn't want it ever coming out in the open. It could be something that is completely innocuous and pointless that Trump just has an exaggerated, irrational fear of. Could be anything, really. It doesn't have to be something that is world-breaking. It just has to be something that's world-breaking to Trump.
This will be dismissed as AI. Even if everyone knows it happened , after a day of shock the right will get their approved talking points and uncritically adopt them like always do. They're well trained.
The angle of Trump being personally compromised made sense at some point in time but I have no idea why we still talk about it. At this point it's nonsense. You can't comprise someone who can do literally anything with impunity.
You're talking about being compromised as in blackmaled with legal repercussions. That's not the case. Admittedly, I agree that that time has probably passed. I'm talking about being personally embarrassed. Fear that he'll be shown as "weak". Or a "lesser man". And yes, as silly as it sounds, fear that people will find out he's got a small dick. That kind of fear doesn't go away regardless of the amount of money or power you have. And yes, people take those fears to absurd and irrational extremes. To him, someone releasing pictures that he has a small dick would be like someone murdering your wife and children in front of you for funzies and putting it on Youtube, and he's willing to do anything to prevent it.