Hustler publisher Larry Flynt took out a full page ad in the Washington Post Sunday, offering $10 million for information that could lead to President Trump’s impeachment.
Flynt made the argument that Trump’s election was ‘illegitimate,’ but worse – that his first nine months in office – have proven that he’s ‘dangerously unfit’ for the job.
‘Impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair, but the alternative – three more years of destabilizing dysfunction – is worse,’ Flynt argued in the ad.
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt (left) said he’d pay $10 million for information that would help get President Donald Trump (right) impeached
Larry Flynt articulated his offer in a full-page ad in Sunday’s Washington Post, arguing ‘impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair,’ but it would be better than three more years of Trump
The porn mogul laid out six ‘charges’ against Trump, including colluding with the Russians, inciting violence using ‘racial-dog whistling’ in the aftermath of Charlottesville, having conflicts-of-interest with his business empire, ‘telling hundreds of bald-faced lies,’ ‘gross nepotism’ in the hiring of his family members and ‘sabotaging’ the Paris climate accord.
‘But most worrisome is that, long before climate-change apocalypse strikes, Trump might trigger a nuclear world war,’ Flynt wrote, noting how Trump’s foreign policy decisions are marked by ‘thin-skinned emotion and erratic ill-advised tweets.’
Flynt than referenced an anecdote MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough told viewers in August 2016 – that Trump had asked advisers three times why the U.S. couldn’t use nuclear weapons.
‘Given his impulsive blustering and megalomania (actually equating himself with Lincoln), this is truly horrifying,’ Flynt said.
Flynt, a liberal Democrat who had supported Trump’s rival Hillary Clinton, called on both Democrats and Republicans to come together and choose country over party, pointing out how it had been done before during the Watergate era.
President Richard Nixon ultimately resigned.
‘To succeed impeachment requires unimpeachable evidence,’ he continued. ‘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? Has the business of the United States been compromised to protect the business of the Trump empire?’ he continued.
‘We need to flush everything out into the open,’ he added.
Flynt has used this tactic before, sometimes successfully and sometimes not.
In the ad he reminds readers that his rewards for information led to the resignation of House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston, who had spearheaded impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton.
Flynt had offered up $1 million for dirt on Republicans in Congress, ensnaring Livingston who admitted to an affair.
Flynt had also offered $1 million for Mitt Romney’s unreleased tax returns in 2012, which never turned up.
The prominent porn publisher said he was upping the ante to $10 million for the current crisis, adding ‘just because you pay for information doesn’t mean it’s not good,’ Flynt said.
‘Sure, I could use that $10 million to buy luxuries or further my businesses, but what good would that do me in a world devastated by the most powerful moron in history?’