Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? This US author is completely certain he is.

https://kyivindependent.com/is-donald-trump-a-russian-asset-this-us-author-is-completely-certain-he-is/

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  1. After watching his meeting with Zelensky, I agree 100%.

    This is some scary stuff.

    Trump is probably scared of Putin. I would be too. Putin is an autistic psychopath who cannot be trusted and has no problem killing anyone who gets in his way.

  4. Isn’t it obvious and the real question is if they pay him, blackmail him, or he’s even more dumb than everyone thinks?

  6. Trump’s loyalty is (and always has been) to the global super rich. Putin just happens to be pretty high up in that club.

  7. I’m becoming more convinced by the day that the events described in that Trump dossier did in fact occur. The recent Krasnov thing adds more fuel to the fire.

  8. You can watch Trump’s body language when he meets with various Russian officials and see the cowering and submission. It would seem to go beyond being a Russian asset. Russia has real leverage over Trump personally.

  9. I believe someone once called him Putin’s Puppet almost a decade ago.

  10. The simpler explanations are usually the best. So yes. But because Russia presents access to wealth in the form of business deals and real estate.

    This is why people in debt come under scrutiny for clearance.

    Also probably a sex tape that is still in Russia.

  11. President Krasnov should rename ‘The Gulf of Mexico’ to ‘The Gulf of Kompromat’.

  12. If it talks like a Russian asset, acts like a Russian asset, and sells the country out like a Russian asset…

    But I guess we’re all supposed to pretend this is a crazy conspiracy theory.

  13. Why are we acting as if we haven’t known this since 2016?

  14. -talks highly of Putin, and has never called him a playground name.

    -called Zelenskyy dictator

    -refuses to call Putin dictator

    -pulled USA out of WHO, Paris Climate Accord, and USAID. NATO will only go once ww3 is official / leaving NATO would be a clear declaration of war.

    -voted with Russia against Ukraine

    -just happens to be supported by and part of the same political party as influencers who were payed by Russia to spew anti Ukraine rhetoric

    -fills administration with other compromised Russian assets and incompetence

    Nah, he’s just joking.

  15. I was pretty sure of this back in 2017/18. Everything that has happened since has made me more and more sure of it. Today I have no doubt. Publicly observable events confirm it all. The west has fallen. NATO is toast. What happens next is beyond my ability to predict.

  16. I remember an old saying, something about a duck.

  17. Trump 💩is a Russian asset. Based solely on his a ruins toward US allies, and the U.S. citizenry.

  19. Everything he is doing is directly benefiting the Russians, so YES!

  20. This is a summary of Craig Unger’s reseach:

    ► Trump was first compromised by the Russians back in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money and it [continued for decades](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/is-there-a-case-for-trump-putin-collaboration-years-before-the-campaign/2018/08/16/00578f1e-9440-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html). In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump’s real estate, but evolved into something far bigger.

    ► In 1984, David Bogatin — a Russian mobster, convicted gasoline bootlegger, and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. (NY Times, [Apr 30, 1992](https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/30/nyregion/entrepreneur-who-left-us-is-back-awaiting-sentence.html))

    ► Felix Sater is a Russian-born former mobster, and former managing director of NY real estate conglomerate Bayrock Group LLC located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Michael Cohen–Trump’s former “fixer” attorney. Cohen’s family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother’s in-laws. Felix Sater’s father had ties to the Russian mob. This goes back more than 30 years.

    ► Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Bayrock (mentioned above). Bayrock was run by two investors: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and poured money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management.

    ► Semion Mogilevich was the brains behind the Russian Mafia. Mogilevich operatives have been using Trump real estate for decades to launder money. That means Russian Mafia operatives have been part of his fortune for years, that many of them have owned condos in Trump Towers and other properties, that they were running operations out of Trump’s crown jewel. (Mogilevich’s role today is unclear).

    ► One of the most important things that is often overlooked is that the Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. that is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have been operating out of the home of the president of the United States is deeply disturbing.

    ► From Craig Unger’s AMA: “Early on, a source told me that all this was tied to Semion Mogilevich, the powerful Russian mobster. I had never even heard of him, but I immediately went to a database that listed the owners of all properties in NY state and looked up all the Trump properties. Every time I found a Russian sounding name, I would Google, and add Mogilevich. When you do investigative reporting, you anticipate drilling a number of dry holes, but almost everyone I googled turned out to be a Russian mobster. Again and again. If you know New York you don’t expect Trump Tower to be a high crime neighborhood, but there were far too many Russian mobsters in Trump properties for it to be a coincidence.”

    ► So many Russians bought Trump apartments at his developments in Florida that the area became known as Little Moscow. The developers of two of his hotels were Russians with significant links to the Russian mob. The late leader of that mob in the United States, Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, was [living at Trump Tower](https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate).

    ► According to a Bloomberg investigation (March 16, 2017) into Trump World Tower, “a third of units sold on floors 76 through 83 by 2004 involved people or limited liability companies connected to Russia and neighboring states.”

    ► In July 2008, the height of the recession, Donald Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. Again, this was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value.

    ► In 2013, Federal agents busted an “ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring” run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. In addition to card games, they operated illegal gambling websites, ran a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” connected to Semion Mogilevich.

    ► Rudy Giuliani famously prosecuted the Italian mob while he was a federal prosecutor, yet the Russian mob was allowed to thrive under his tenure in the Southern District and Mayor. And now he’s deeply entwined in the business of Trump and Russian oligarchs. Giuiani appointed Semyon Kislin to the NYC Economic Development Council in 1990, and the FBI described Kislin as having ties tot he Russian mob. Of course, it made good political sense for Giuliani to get headlines for smashing the Italian mob.

    ► A lot of Republicans in Washington are implicated. Boatloads of Russian money went to the GOP–often in legal ways. The NRA got as much as $70M from Russia, then funneled it to the GOP. The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee lead by McConnel got millions from Leonard Blavatnik. In the 90s, the Russians began sending money to top GOP leaders, like Speaker of the House Tom Delay. Unger’s book alleges that most of the GOP leadership has been compromised by RU money.

    ► At the Cityscape USA’s Bridging US and the Emerging Real Estate Markets Conference held in Manhattan, on September 9, 10, and 11, 2008, Trump Jr. was frank about the tide of Russian money supporting the family business, saying “…And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”

    ► Eric Trump told James Dodson, a golf reporter, in 2014 that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”

    Outcomes that show Trump is taking orders (or cues) from Putin:

    ► At the end of 2018, Putin and his allies started making a [strong push](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/04/defying-history-moscow-moves-defend-soviet-war-afghanistan/?utm_term=.d077fc6cf274) for a resolution that would justify their country’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and reverse an 1989 vote backed by Mikhail Gorbachev that condemned it. The Putinists’ goal was to pass the resolution by Feb. There is no one on this side of the Atlantic who thinks the USSR was justified in invading Afghanistan. And out of nowhere, on [January 2nd](https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-cracked-afghan-history-11546560234), Trump came out strongly supporting Russia’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

    ► Trump told the FBI he didn’t believe their intelligence because Putin told him otherwise. [“I don’t care, I believe Putin”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/18/i-believe-putin-trump-dismissed-us-advice-on-north-korea-threat-says-mccabe)

    ► Trump met in secret with Putin the G20 summit in November 2018, without note takers. 19 days later, he announced a withdrawal from Syria. As a note, Trump conducted FIVE completely private meetings and conferences with Putin, and has gone to great lengths to prevent literally anyone, even people in his administration, from learning what was discussed.

    ► He has denounced his own intelligence agencies in a press conference with Putin on election meddling – and publicly endorsed Putin’s version of events. .

    ► Trump pulled out of the INF treaty with no explanation, which allows Putin to create long-range hypersonic missiles that threaten Europe with impunity. The US already has all the weaponry that the INF would ban the development of, so this offers us literally nothing, while allowing Russia to develop powerful new weapons to challenge our allies.

    ► After calls with Putin, Trump keeps trying to reduce America’s military readiness. In the last administration, this meant cancelling the digital catapult systems on aircraft carriers in favote of steam systems. In the current administration, [after chatting with Putin](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/russia-g7-trump-putin-call-b2698235.html) he wanted to halve the US defense budget and promote Russia back into the G7

    ► And of course, Trump continues to threaten to pull out of NATO, a move so catastrophically stupid, so inconceivably cosmically myopic, I truly can’t express the profundity of the idiocy. Suffice to say, pulling out of NATO would be like the only guy in a prison yard with a shotgun just throwing it over the fence for absolutely no reason, suddenly giving the people with crude homemade shivs complete power.

    ► In summation: Trump was in debt and the Russians cultivated him as an unwitting asset.

  21. If so, our CIA and NSA has failed spectacularly

    If there were ever a grassy knoll situation, its one where a 40 year Russian asset wins the POTUS election…..twice

  22. Does it matter? He’s acting like one so this question is purely academic.

  24. Again, if Trump WAS a russian asset, what would he be doing differently

  25. Trump is a Russian asset. How would he behave differently if he wasn’t a Russian asset? That’s your answer.

  26. After yesterday, IS THERE ANY DOUBT?!?? FFS Putin is now running the US.

  27. Is he doing what Russia wants him to do? Yes? Then he’s a Russian asset.

    Not the same thing as a Russian agent.

  28. Does it matter? He is doing Putin’s bidding. Even if he was not an Asset (which the Muller Report suggested he was) to betray our allies, to profit from the war or quit Nato, is still treasonous. The meeting with Zelenskyy cannot be seen as anything other than a huge confession.

  30. There’s literally a podcast called the The Asset that has been investigating and reporting in this very thing since 2016. Season 1 is worth a listen.

  32. Based upon his behavior, he is whether he knows it or not.

  33. There are many ways one can be a foreign asset. My bet is on Trump is being a Russian asset in the same way he is an Israeli asset and a Saudi asset. That is to say he is a useful idiot rather than on the Kremlin’s payroll.

  37. We want transparency in our politicians. Trump could not be more transparent in his love for all things Russian and his disdain for Western democracies

  38. Without a fucking doubt he is. The Cold War is won by Russia.

  39. Normal citizens have known this for a decade. Hilary even suggested it a decade ago as well. Obama and Biden did nothing about it.

  41. Junior said clearly “We have all the funding we need from Russia.”

    It’s not even arguable that he is assisting our adversaries. They invested in him, and now he’s returning the favor at the expense of America’s future. The fire alarm needs to be pulled before these traitors irreparably damage our democracy…not after.

  43. He definitely is. Melania is his handler. Amazingly good chance he doesn’t know it since he can’t even read or write. The amount of dirt she probably accumulated to keep him in line just in case the money didn’t.

  44. -Repeated praise of Putin, and extremely rare criticism

    -His attempts to weaken NATO and question its necessity.

    -2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian operatives promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.

    -His request for Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails during a 2016 speech.

    -The Trump campaign’s push to change the GOP platform to soften its stance on Ukraine.

    -Denial of Russian election interference despite U.S. intelligence consensus, because Putin said so.

    -The secretive nature of his meetings with Putin, including confiscating an interpreter’s notes.

    -His push to lift sanctions on Russia and opposition to new sanctions.

    -The connections between his campaign officials (like Paul Manafort) and pro-Russian entities.

    -Withholding of military aid to Ukraine.

    -Ceasing investigation into Russian hacking, meddling, propaganda.

    -Trump organisation doesn’t need US bank funding because “we have all the funding we need out of Russia.

  45. if he isnt, hes still doing everything a russian asset would do. there was no reason to tell the government to stand down its anti russian influence and cyber operations unless you wanted that vulnerability exposed

  47. I can’t believe people are still wondering about this

  48. We don’t the full nature of Trump’s relationship with Russia and Putin, but it is 100% clear that he is doing things that benefit Russia and the expense of the U.S.

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