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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25925641

A former senior Soviet KGB spy chief has claimed that Donald Trump was recruited as a spy by Russian intelligence as early as 38 years ago by his department, and given the codename ‘Krasnov’.

In an extraordinary post on Facebook on 20 February, Alnur Mussayev – who used to run the successor to the Soviet-era KGB in Kazakhstan – claimed that he was personally aware of Trump’s recruitment by the agency in 1987.

The recruitment, he said, was undertaken by his own KGB department. One of the key roles of that department was to acquire intelligence through business leaders in Western countries.

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[-] killea@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There's certainly plenty of evidence which could point to kompromat. Even if he's not compromised they clearly have some sort of "arrangement." But, again, that's mind numbingly obvious to anyone with their head not lodged in their ass.

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io -2 points 1 week ago

this got no traction during his first campaign, his first administration, after he left office, his second campaign, but i'm sure now having bitten that same bullshit apple a million times, this wildly incidiery clutches pearls "quelle surprise!" revelations, litteraly everyone on the planet has heard a half bajillion fucking times before is going to move the needle. it does'nt, and it won't. because it's not true. nothing in trumps actions can be explained by him being compromised by russia, if you've payed any attention at all to his entire life history, that can't also be explained by the simple fact he just wanted to fucking do it.

if it makes you feel better, like you've discovered, or uncovered something secret, trump really doesn't want you to know, because he's afraid somehow that you can hurt him, or cause him damage, with it, have at it man

it continue to be the stupidenst weakass lazy shit, and as we're all going down the drain to burn, seeing this being pumped out by the addle brained is annoying as fuck

[-] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Thanks for being the sole voice of reason here. You laid it out so clearly and I wouldn’t be surprised if I was the only one to read your comment completely. It’s always odd to me how liberals in America get so offended and immediately abusive/dismissive towards anyone who dares contradict them. It feels like they would gladly tune in to Maddow every night to watch her tease them about another bombshell Trump tax scandal that doesn’t exist. They’re addicted to this drama, and they get every bit as furious as their conservative counterparts when you try to point out that they’re falling for literally the exact same fake scandal from 6 years ago.

[-] riot@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Whether Trump was KGB or not, he likes Putin free from any outside influence. Just like he digs Erdoğan and Milei because they are authoritarians, he digs Putin too. How does this not compute?!

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