Sometimes. "Your Mom died." That's news that hurts, if it's true. If it's not, then it's a play on another person's emotions and will no doubt elicit a less than friendly response when the (happy?) truth is discovered. I suppose that finding out that you've been lied to is almost always a hurtful experience, unless you're used to it, then maybe not so much.

I find the truth, even when negative in nature, is not so much a 'hurt' as a warning, or in some cases, a hint of the future. Take the latest attacks on those two tankers in the Straight of Hormuz. War is in the air, guaranteed; regardless of who did the damage or why. There may be misleading stories, or even outright lies along the way, but men are going to die. That's the truth. Does it hurt?

Putin is a brilliant strategist and chess player, working many moves into the future.

To start with he could not possibly have thought Trump would win, it didn't matter, the damage he had sown would have wreaked havoc in terms of dividing this country. Butt hurt Trump supporters threatening civil war, the GOP had articles of impeachment ready to kick off the first month Hillary was in office, Obama would have been hounded for moronic things like "illegal wiretaps on Trump". The Russian interference would have been lost in the furor over Hillary stealing the election.
Trump won, more to the good, Putin has gotten favor after favor from Trump that has turned Russia around financially. The first few weeks of Trump taking office the GOP lifted the requirement that corporations disclose any financial transactions with foreign entities, think Exxon's $500 Billion cash deal to Russia and their new interest in developing Russian oil reserves.

Now think what Putin is doing, he is sending signals that relations between the country are deteriorating. Lets say dirt on Trump is "leaked", we have a divide that will easily see it as coming from the deep state. Lets say dirt is given to our intelligence services by other intelligence partners, same thing. No matter how credible Trump and his supporters will give nothing any credibility. Let's say dirt and leaks, and the internet social media machine ramps up into full gear as far as division is concerned. Dems are given the dirt on Trump, social media misinformation fuels the right by ramping up dirt on Trump that looks to benefit dems. The way the right belief system works is that they refuse to believe anything bad, and automatically reject anything bad that comes from the left.

There will be election fraud by the right, we know this since they refuse to do anything about election security or hard ballots, but the lip service rhetoric will be about the left stealing the elections. Russia will be taking division and chaos to new levels, we won't know what's up.

While you have made your point, I say your point is ' pointless '. Forgive my bluntness, but here is my reasoning. I have observed politics since the Watergate Era and I think there are some truisms that rarely fail.

Both my side and your side have been extremely angry at Presidents of the opposite side. Unlike some on your side, I freely admit to hatred, but then I refuse to lie, at least to myself. But I digress, where was I ? Oh yea, hatred.

I remember Watergate and if there was a Republican more hated than My Boy Trump it was Richard Nixon. Then Ford pardoned him and he never spent a day in jail. If there was one guy who could've and did not it was him. While Democrats, many of them would've been overjoyed to see him behind bars, once he was no longer a political threat, they let it go.

On my side, we would've loved to see Bill and Hillary and definitely Barak Obama behind bars, again now that they are yesterday, there are bigger fish to fry.

Sorry about being so long to get to my central point, but to Impeach Trump after he is out of office will not happen. First of all he will be yesterday's battle and will not be worth the trouble, plus at his age he will never again seek public office.

Sorry, I got about as far as "Both my side and your side have been extremely angry at Presidents of the opposite side. Unlike some on your side, I freely admit to hatred, but then I refuse to lie, at least to myself. But I digress, where was I ? Oh yea, hatred.". As I don't HAVE a side, I can hardly have an "opposing" side. Just because I can see Trump for what he is, that doesn't make me a liberal, a Democrat, a progressive or anything else you would LIKE to label me. I will admit, my recently acquired view of what passes as the current Republican party may suggest that I may be a liberal/Democrat/progressive, that truly isn't the case.