You certainly are, though you don't know it.Hey! I bet RT is a Russian asset!
Russian Spy- trump has been the perfect asset for 40 YEARS
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he failed to counter the narrative that Huntergate was a Russian plot.
polls suggest about 10% of Biden voters would not have voted for biden if they knew he was corrupt -enough to change the election/./
RUSSIAN ASSET ROLL CALL: You know who you are, so do we, come to the defence of your leader or get called out
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Fri 29 Jan 2021 03.00 EST
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Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia.
Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the 1980s. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006.
Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB.
Three years later Trump opened his first big property development, the Grand Hyatt New York hotel near Grand Central station. Trump bought 200 television sets for the hotel from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue.
According to Shvets, Joy-Lud was controlled by the KGB and Kislin worked as a so-called “spotter agent” who identified Trump, a young businessman on the rise, as a potential asset. Kislin denies that he had a relationship with the KGB.
Then, in 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics.
The ex-major recalled: “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.”
Soon after he returned to the US, Trump began exploring a run for the Republican nomination for president and even held a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On 1 September, he took out a full-page advert in the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe headlined: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.”
The ad offered some highly unorthodox opinions in Ronald Reagan’s cold war America, accusing ally Japan of exploiting the US and expressing scepticism about US participation in Nato. It took the form of an open letter to the American people “on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves”.
The bizarre intervention was cause for astonishment and jubilation in Russia. A few days later Shvets, who had returned home by now, was at the headquarters of the KGB’s first chief directorate in Yasenevo when he received a cable celebrating the ad as a successful “active measure” executed by a new KGB asset.
“It was unprecedented. I am pretty well familiar with KGB active measures starting in the early 70s and 80s, and then afterwards with Russia active measures, and I haven’t heard anything like that or anything similar – until Trump became the president of this country – because it was just silly. It was hard to believe that somebody would publish it under his name and that it will impress real serious people in the west but it did and, finally, this guy became the president.”
Trump’s election win in 2016 was again welcomed by Moscow. Special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish a conspiracy between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. But the Moscow Project, an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, found the Trump campaign and transition team had at least 272 known contacts and at least 38 known meetings with Russia-linked operatives.
Shvets, who has carried out his own investigation, said: “For me, the Mueller report was a big disappointment because people expected that it will be a thorough investigation of all ties between Trump and Moscow, when in fact what we got was an investigation of just crime-related issues. There were no counterintelligence aspects of the relationship between Trump and Moscow.”He added: “This is what basically we decided to correct. So I did my investigation and then got together with Craig. So we believe that his book will pick up where Mueller left off.”
Unger, the author of seven books and a former contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine, said of Trump: “He was an asset. It was not this grand, ingenious plan that we’re going to develop this guy and 40 years later he’ll be president. At the time it started, which was around 1980, the Russians were trying to recruit like crazy and going after dozens and dozens of people.”
“Trump was the perfect target in a lot of ways: his vanity, narcissism made him a natural target to recruit. He was cultivated over a 40-year period, right up through his election.”
yes with all the sanctions trump placed on Russia and fighting against the pipe line from Russia to Europe , providing weapons to nations Russia has threatened to invade, standing up against Russian s Syria polices and destroying the poison gas plant that Russia built in Iran and killing off Russian mercenary's .
then he expel 60 Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of Russian spy Sergei Skripal
and there is more if youn pinheads would actually look it up and use some common sense.
Sure sounds like something that a Russian asset would do hey pin head
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
I know, right?....
that should shut up the Russiphobes! *but they'll never stop yammering Trump is a 'Russian asset"
nice post
Darth Omar
Russian asset
The Russian knows a good boom market when he sees one lol.
Anything with ‘Trump’ and ‘Russia’ in it will make the NYT Best Seller List.
no worries
Verified User
"I live for lives"?
Gonna change comments, likely post fake topics and attribute that to people who have, easily put your comments to shame.
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Yeah, too bad, the king was orange.
Darth Omar
Russian asset
The Russian knows a good book market when he sees one lol.
Anything with ‘Trump’ and ‘Russia’ in it will make the NYT Best Seller List.
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
Facts like that don't fit the narrative..
no worries
Verified User
OK, then, when is Dotard's lawsuit coming?
Several books have come out, where is the lawsuit by Dotard or Rudy?
Dotard should be able to make millions but there are crickets coming from him.
I see you aren't contesting the facts Trump has been (too) tough on Russia
Now back to our regularly scheduled narrative..
no worries
Verified User
Dotard?
'Tough on Russia"?
Laughable.
Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2013
Yeah, (too) tough.
“Look at Putin – what he’s doing with Russia – I mean, you know, what’s going on over there. I mean this guy has done – whether you like him or don’t like him – he’s doing a great job in rebuilding the image of Russia and also rebuilding Russia period,” Trump told Larry King on CNN.
“Putin has big plans for Russia. He wants to edge out its neighbors so that Russia can dominate oil supplies to all of Europe,” Trump said. “I respect Putin and Russians but cannot believe our leader (Obama) allows them to get away with so much…Hats off to the Russians.”
“I think I’d get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I just think so,” Trump said in one of his first comments about the Russian leader since launching his presidential bid last June.
“I got to know him very well because we were both on ‘60 Minutes,’ we were stablemates, and we did very well that night,” Trump said, despite the fact that he and Putin had been interviewed in separate countries at different times for the same news program.
“I have no relationship with him other than he called me a genius. He said Donald trump is a genius and he is going to be the leader of the party and he’s going to be the leader of the world or something,” Trump said, embellishing Putin’s praise.
True...if he had spoken up the Mind Molders (nee journalists) would not have been able to ignore it. Barr deeply failed the nation.
Barr interned at the CIA, and was hanging out with his buddies trump and Epstein. It was back before Epstein had any money, back when he was a low level club drug dealer. trump had some access to family money, but was mostly working as a club promoter, getting drugs and women for people to go to clubs. Barr was able to help his friend Epstein get a job with Barr's father, which started Epstein on the road to success.
Barr had everything setup for entering the CIA, when he started failing lie detecter tests. They further found out that he was hanging out with drug dealers, and had unreported contact with Russians.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
thanks for correcting your typo.......
no worries
Verified User
Fuck you Q NUT.
Says the proven liar.
Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.
Problem is, Biden will be blindly kissing China's ass
moronic.
first off all this is before he was POTUS; but trying to repair Russian relations is the SAME THING OBAMA DID
with his "Russian Reset"
I wont even go into the geopolitics of why bettering Russian relations helps against China (triangulation) either.
Look what Trump ID to Russia with massive sanctions, funding the Donbass war and trying to undercut Nordstream 2
This member is a proven liar.