Larry Flynt, the poker-playing owner of Hustler Casino and founder of Hustler magazine, has offered $10million for ‘information leading to the impeachment and removal from office’ of US President Donald Trump.
The publishing magnate paid for a full page ad in the Washington Post Sunday edition last weekend, stating: ‘It is my patriotic duty, and the duty of all Americans, to dump Trump before it is too late,’ also tweeting his massive offer…
Flynt’s advert, which features a telephone Hotline and also an e-mail tip line for would-be whistleblowers to contact him with information, focuses on a number of areas where he feels that President Trump has fallen far short of the conduct expected of his high office.
The ‘skullduggery’ which Flynt lists includes:
- ‘Colluding with a hostile foreign power to rig our elections’ (the Russian affair)
- ‘Inciting violent civil strife with his racial dog-whistling’ (Charlottesville and the KKK)
- ‘Compromising domestic and foreign policy with his massive conflicts of interests’ (Trump’s global business empire)
- ‘Telling hundreds of bald-faced lies’ (and his ignorance of world affairs)
- ‘Gross nepotism and appointment of unqualified persons to high office’ (his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner)
- ‘Sabotaging the 195-nation Paris Accord’ (the climate change protocols)
Most worrying of all, the Hustler boss says, is that ‘Trump might start a global nuclear war’, citing the President asking 3 times why he can’t launch nuclear strikes, as well as his recent brinkmanship with North Korea.
Flynt, no stranger to controversy and wheelchair-ridden after being shot following an inter-racial sex scene being published by his magazine, told the Washington Post ‘that he expected to get information “within a few days” and said he would release any legitimate information right away.’
He also defended his cash offer for information, adding:
“Just because you pay for it does not mean it’s not any good - I don’t think you can live as recklessly as Trump has for 30 years and not leave some baggage along the way… I can't think of something more patriotic to do than to try to get to get this moron out of office.”
His advert also stated:
“I do not expect any of Trump’s billionaire cronies to rat him out, but I am confident that there are many people in the know for whom $10 million is a lot of money.”
Flynt opened his Hustler Casino in 2000 and has hosted one of the biggest private games in the poker world for the best part of a decade, moving the $4,000/$8,000 stakes Seven-Card Stud game from his home to the casino, with latecomers ‘fined $500’, the money going towards food for the players.