Admit it. You believed it on first reading of it.

The only question is whether the Russians actually have it on tape.

Well, also whether they have video, right?

Or just audio.

Comey was referring, of course, to a claim in the dossier about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia compiled by the British ex-spy Christopher Steele. 

While in Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013, Trump reserved the Ritz-Carlton’s presidential suite, where Barack and Michelle Obama had stayed previously. 

Citing multiple anonymous sources, Steele reported that Trump had prostitutes defile the bed where the Obamas slept by urinating on it, and that the Kremlin had recordings.

Since BuzzFeed News published the dossier last year, the right has treated this allegation as so outrageous as to be almost prima facie false, like a report that Trump had been abducted by aliens or plotting with the Illuminati. 

Wow.

Call bullshit on that.

Everybody believes this on first exposure.

Still, I think Ben Cohen is wrong and the reasons for Trump's fealty to Putin are much more serious and extensive than the alleged Russian pee tape.