Larry Flynt, the porn publisher and founder of Hustler Magazine bought a full-page ad in The Washington Post on Sunday offering $10 million to anyone who may have dirt or any information on President Donald Trump that, according to him, could lead to his impeachment from office.
A full-page ad in The Washington Post by Larry Flynt offering to pay $10million on dirt or information on President Trump in the hopes of getting him impeached. Credit: AFP/GETTY Images
The ad which has no pictures or images, written entirely in bold-caps and fills an entire page argues that the election of Donald Trump was “illegitimate in many ways” because he lost the popular vote. It also attributes his winning the election because of some Electoral College “quirk” and Republican gerrymandering.
Flynt also argues that Trump is “dangerously unfit” for oval office as his tenure reaches its first ninth month.
“Impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair but the alternative – three more years of destabilizing dysfunction – is worse,” he argued.
Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt is a liberal Democrat and Clinton supporter seeking to impeach President Trump. Credit: AP/Katy Winn
“Trump has proven he’s dangerously unfit to exercise the extreme power accrued by our unitary executive.”
According to The Washington Post, Flynt, the founder of the sexually graphic, pornographic Hustler Magazine is a liberal Democrat who endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in 2016 and who has used his fame in the past to influence politics.
In 2012, he took out a similar ad worth millions of dollars for information on then GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns as well as seeking evidence on congressional members or government officials who have had illicit sexual encounters.
Larry Flynt used the same tactic in 1998 which led to GOP Rep Bob Livingston’s resignation from Congress. Credit: Getty Images
Apparently one of the ads led to the resignation of Republican Congressman Bob Livingston in 1998 after he admitted he had extramarital affairs, according to CNN.
Flynt’s ad lays out some six charges against President Trump that warrant impeachment including collusion with Russia, his decision to fire former FBI Director, “racial dog-whistling” in Charlottesville, the risk that he might launch a nuclear war with North Korea, and his decision to pull the US out of the landmark Paris climate deal.
Flynt is calling on both Democrats and Republicans to come together and choose country over party, pointing out how it had previously been done in the past during the Watergate era. This led to the ultimate resignation of then President Richard Nixon.
Larry Flynt is a Liberal Democrat and true Clintonite who endorsed Hillary Clintonite for President in 2016.
“To succeed, impeachment requires unimpeachable evidence,” said Flynt in his charge. “That’s why I’m making this offer: Buried in Trump’s top-secret Tax Returns or in other records in his far-flung investments there may be a smoking gun.
“Did he make some financial quid-pro quo with the Russians” continued Flynt. “Has the business of the United States been compromised to protect the business of the Trump Empire? We need to flush everything out in the open,” he added.
The Trump-hating Flynt who is obviously a a solid Clintonite is quick to remind readers that his rewards for similar information once led to the resignation of House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston who had spearheaded impeachment proceedings against then President Bill Clinton.
2012 Republican Presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addressing supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
In 2012, he offered a million dollars for then Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns which of course never materialized. His argument in this case for upping the ante to $10 million is that this is an urgent crisis, adding that, “Just because you pay for information doesn’t mean it’s not good.”
“Sure, I could use that $10 million to buy luxuries or further my businesses but what good would do to me in a world devastated by the most powerful moron in history?”
At the end of the ad, there is an email address and a toll-free number along with a reassurance that Flynt intends to pay the full amount of $10 million for good information.
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