Comrade Krasnov, aka Donald Trump

America Kompromat

Daily Kos:

It was Alnur Mussayev that identified Donald Trump with the codename Krasnov, but years before, there was Yuri Shvets, a Major in the KGB. He was stationed in Washington DC In 1985 to 1987, with his cover being a correspondent for TASS, a Soviet news agency.

He featured prominently in the 2021 book American Kompromat, by Craig Unger. Kompromat means compromising material.

Here are some relevant parts from that exerpt. You all remember the July, 2018 Helsinki news conference where he agreed with Putin that there was no Russian interference on the 2016 election and ignored 17 national security agencies?

"Why did he pull out the troops from Syria --- as Putin wanted? Why did he cut back troops in Germany --- as Putin wished? Why did Trump say nothing when it was widely reported Russia was offering bounties to be paid to Afghan troops who killed American soldiers?"

"In a New York Times op-ed written 3 months before the 2016 election, the former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Morell answered the last question in the affirmative (about Trump being an 'asset'), writing, 'In the intelligence business, we would say Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.'"

Others said Trump was ​​​"a useful idiot," and "a clear and present danger."

"In December 2017, former National Intelligence director James Clapper asserted that Trump was, in effect, an intelligence 'asset' serving Russian President Vladimir Putin. And in 2019, the former CIA director John Brennan declared Trump to be 'wholly in the pocket of Putin.'"

Glenn Carle, a former CIA intelligence officer, in January 2016 "was deeply alarmed by the various connections he saw between Trump's team and the Russians, but he wasn't sure who to talk to. 'I was hopping up and down about this. I couldn't sit here without telling someone that they were about to have The Manchurian Candidate realized.'"

"There was already plenty of evidence that Russian intelligence had focused enormous amounts of attention on Trump, his family members, and people who had access to him."

These are our own expert intelligence people telling us that Trump was an asset in 2016 and since. We don't even need Mussayev and Shvets to add to the mix, but they confirm what was done on the Russian side....

See also Appeasing Russia is U.S. policy