Where are Omarosa's tapes?

Video tapes that damage Trump would even be better.

The Deplorables aren't going sit still and listen to a tape no more than they are going to read a newspaper, read a book or listen to a non-FOX news program. So it's all just 'preaching to the choir' anyway.

Whatever damages Trump even a little bit is fine with me. The deplorables may not pay attention--but some of them actually do. But the news media does pay attention and even Trump TV/Faux News has to report on the tapes. And with each of Omarosa's tapes, Trump's credibility is damaged. Any voter sitting on the fence, any independent voter may be convinced not to vote for Trump again. The point is that it's building a coalition against Trump, and if Omarosa's tapes help in any way, then let's hear/see them. Trump hates to be embarrassed. Let's embarrass him.

Some local pundit indicated today that the people who didn't bother to vote in 2016 because either they didn't care; or voted for Jill Stein, etc. to, y'know, "make a statement about the importance of 3rd parties"; or gave Turd the benefit of the doubt with their noses plugged; or thought Hillary would win in a landslide anyway; or didn't want a woman to be President... will all come out in 2020 to get rid of Trump.

Let's hope. It's the only way we'll ever stop Pence from becoming POTUS.

She's doling them out slowly for maximum effect over the next several months if not the next couple of years, if necessary. This morning we had Giuliani making an even bigger ass of himself than usual and we've got the Manafort jury. percolating.

[quote]She's doling them out slowly for maximum effect over the next several months if not the next couple of years

R5. Omarosa cannot do that. It's not the way the news works particularly in this chaotic Trump cycle. The story only has a limited shelf life. In a matter of a month or so, her book will lose its relevance. No one will care unless Trump actually does say the N-word on tape. Short of that, the content of her book won't matter--just like every other book before it. It will have nothing to do with her. We will have moved onto the next crisis in The White House.

The book will less and less to do with it. The tapes, in and of and for themselves. Why release them regularly at some conventional anticipated time? Keep the opponent guessing.

If she's smart, she'll encrypt the files using 256-bit AES (each file with a different key) and release the encrypted files to the public & media, then use a keystore scheme that allows the decryption keys to be split up among multiple trustworthy people (preferably, in multiple countries) so that some subset of them have to cooperate to get the key. Once the encrypted files are on the internet, nobody can take them away. And if anything happens to her, the people with the keys can unlock the decryption keys and release them to Twitter (by the time anyone got them removed, it would be too late).

Technical detail: to implement a scheme where you need {n} of {p} keyholders to cooperate, you basically create one key {k} for each plausible combination of keyholders who'd need to cooperate, use {k} to encrypt the REAL encryption key for the file in question, then make multiple encrypted copies of {k}, each encrypted with a key derived from the keys of the designated keyholders.

Simplified explanation closer to plain English:

* Ten people have keys.

* Any 5 can get together and find the one box out of thousands that their combination of 5 keys can unlock.

* They unlock the box, and find a key inside that can unlock yet another box containing the keys of the boxes where the individual audio files are stored.

* Those keys are used to unlock the invidual audio files.

Except the keys are very large numbers, and copies of EVERYTHING that's encrypted (including the encrypted keys themselves) are files that are widely distributed among the public.

WTF^

^--- Basically, what Ed Snowden did as an insurance policy.