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Jane Prescott's avatar

Thank you for the repost.

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Michael D. Sellers's avatar

Thanks for the great work! More, please! ;-)

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Amanda Chapman's avatar

And there's always the 2021 book "American Kompromat" as cited in a Guardian article at the time

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

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Mary Snyder's avatar

I have been beating the same drum for 10 years or more. Look up Deutsch bank’s role in his bankruptcies. Also Deutsch bank was instrumental in Russia’s economic espionage campaign. I wish I could go on FB and show how many times I wrote the above. I felt like Cassandra of Troy, speaking truth about the Trojan Horse but no one listens. Now, this is all over the news.

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Chris Fagg's avatar

I think the admitted fact that Russian money helped Trump out of a hole when western banks wouldn't lend him a cent might be a lot closer to the truth. The first one is always free...

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Pamela's avatar

I am so happy that this important information is being presented and published! Now it’s time that Trump’s criminal history of rapes and sexual abuse come forward. The Jeffery Epstein case is a place to start….

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EB's avatar

Still just rumor and hearsay, unfortunately. If true, KGB is careful to cover its tracks. If nothing substantive had come out after the past decade of intense scrutiny of Trump, it seems unlikely that a smoking gun that might significantly impact him will appear. I want this all to be true, but even if there were kompromat, would it really change anything? The guy was convicted of 34 felonies save sexual assault and still got elected! MAGAs already know he loves Putin and voted for him. It would be worth uncovering the full street of Trump's links to Russia for history but I'm skeptical that it would change our current lousy situation.

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Klaus Weber's avatar

Chilling in it's enduring plausibilty.

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Michael's avatar

Your information together with the Muller report that I've read through, coupled to Trump's extraordinary behaviour, other than he is completely mad or sickenly avid would indeed indicate that he is "Krasnov." The Kremlin could not have hoped to have ever achieved what Trump has done in just 35 days: Insulted a democratically elected president, first on his social media then on TV weakening Zelensky' position even before peace talks started.

Who does that favour?

- Refused to state that Russia was the aggressor.

- Refused to say that Putin didn't want to hold peace talks, despite the whole world's attempt to induce him to do so.

- Acted like a Mafia boss to extort mineral land from Ukraine in exchange for American protection.

Whose to gain from the above if not Putin?

- Withdrawing without due warning America's nuclear unbrella protecting NATO

Whose to gain from that if not Putin's Russia

-Dismantling the North Atlantic Alliance dear to the U.S. and Western countries.

Whose to gain from that, if not Russia?

- Voting alongside Russia and North Korea (!) at the UN.

- Demolished US credibility throughout the western world ( see https://youtu.be/TEjKctHQvn8?feature=shared )

Even if If he isn't Krasnov, Trump is America's and the West's worst enemy and 100 times more dangerous than Bill Laden ever was.

Perhaps I should introduce myself, I used to be a journalist and probably the first to state on London Broadcasting Co (LBC) 15 minutes after it happened, that the shooting of the hope was to be found behind the iron curtain in an attempt to stop the winds of freedom from blowing its way. ( i e. From poland)

So thank you very much for you plausible explanation to such sheer madness.

Michael E.L. Hall

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Joy Marcus's avatar

Recall during the 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly said, "I don't even need to be here. They tell me I have the votes."

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Doreen D's avatar

Makes too much sense to ignore and if you followed Trump ( not intentionally) you’d feel like this is credible. In the 80’s - 90’s he openly admitted to a lot.

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Paul J Rossa's avatar

Thanks much, the entire piece is worth the read because it covers considerable ground. Nice to see the mentions of early warnings by knowledgeable US experts (like Morell, Clapper, Hill), although this list could be longer (e.g. Hayden, Sipher, Hall). Of course, there's still a lot of ground to cover regarding Trump's activities in the 1990s and beyond.

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Joy Marcus's avatar

During the 2024 campaign season, Trump repeatedly said, "I don't even need to be here. They tell me I have the votes."

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Beverley Lynne Harris's avatar

Thank you for sharing this info and reportage.

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johnnyhands's avatar

From Ms. Prescott's article:

"Shvets essentially portrays Trump as a willing accomplice or “useful idiot” rather than a formal spy. His opinion lends credence to the idea that the KGB targeted Trump, though Shvets has also said Trump was likely not aware he was being handled – making him more of an unwitting asset."

My hunch is that this is more like it (if we don't get more direct evidence in the future.) Perhaps the KGB didn't feel it couldn't trust Trump enough to formally recruitment him. Perhaps they realized they didn't really need to recruit because Trump was easily influenced - by them.

The KGB could have given him a codename for their own use, without him knowing about it.

I'd be interested if/how he was aided financially by Russians, say, with loans when Western lenders rejected him. Has this line of inquiry been substantiated?

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Constantine Faller's avatar

Michael, have you had any thoughts of why now for Mussayev to come forward? What motivation? If you have written about it elsewhere, I have missed it.

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Michael D. Sellers's avatar

One critic who knows him well say he was just putting it out there "to remind everyone he's still around" -- keeping in mind that he's living in exile in Austria. I'm not sure if that's really it. He's on the outs with Russia ad Kazakh governments, so I don't think he's carrying water for them. Anyway, i'm not sure. Idon't see some master manipulation from Putin in this. I could more easily it was the equivalent of drunk texting.

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Constantine Faller's avatar

If he’s on the outs that could easily explain the timing as Mr t is now so openly cozying up to Putin.

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Peter Coyote's avatar

Curious to know what gives Marco Rubio unilateral authority to cancel a green card. Isn’t that a law that’s passed by Congress. Nobody complaining about that?

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