Summary

Former Kazakh intelligence chief Alnur Mussayev alleges that the KGB recruited Donald Trump in 1987 under the codename “Krasnov.”

In a Facebook post, Mussayev claimed that the KGB targeted Western businessmen and that Trump’s file is now privately controlled by a Putin associate.

Though unverified, the claims fuel speculation about Trump’s ties to Russia, which he has denied.

Concerns about Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin persist, with former officials like Anthony Scaramucci suggesting an unexplained “hold” on him but offering no further details.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    Trump is a Russian asset. This has been known for years.

    Our alphabet soup (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.) have far more information about this than the general public. This has been known for years.

    His base does not care. This has also been known for years.

    Congress, who has the power to impeach and remove a Russian asset sitting in the Oval Office, will do exactly nothing about it. This has also been known for years.

    In other words: We know, nobody cares, it doesn’t matter. Nobody’s going to do anything about it.

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      It does seem odd that the intelligence community seems to have been totally compromised. You’d think the cia, who has done quite a few coups themselves would have seen this coming and done something about it.

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        To be fair the CIA and FBI, like all other law enforcement, has spent literal decades training their agents to view US citizens as “the enemy.”

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        They have simply have no way to wrap their heads around the idea of doing anything about it. The CIA was created as a weapon for the government to point at their enemies. They don’t know how to respond when that government is the enemy.

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          The Manchurian Candidate came out in 1959 and was made a movie in 1962. I guarantee that the people who do game theory about coups and nuclear war have thought about a willing or unwilling traitor in power. It’s one of the most confusing things about all this that they haven’t done anything to stop it.

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            I guarantee that the people who do game theory about coups and nuclear war have thought about a willing or unwilling traitor in power. It’s one of the most confusing things about all this that they haven’t done anything to stop it.

            My take is that whatever plans exist (and I agree they must) for this situation were designed to come into play only when a very specific set of criteria had been met, and that because any such plan would necessarily be very extreme, the designers of the plan codified that no matter how bad things got, it would require ALL those criteria to be met before it could be lawfully executed.

            I believe we haven’t checked all the boxes yet.

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            My takeaway is that they believe they will have now power now, and so will do nothing to stop Trump

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            They have always worked for the oligarchs. And the oligarchs are either in on this as well or find it useful.

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      Congress, who has the power to impeach and remove a Russian asset sitting in the Oval Office,

      they tried repeatedly, but republican shitbird turncoat traitors protected him.

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      I get that you’re saying this out of frustration, and it’s true. But it doesn’t help. We need people like this to come forward. We need to beat this drum enough that even some of the idiot Trump supporters get it.

      The most important thing is that he still has something like 45% public support. Until that number drops, we’re stuck with this. If this can help chip away at that 45% then it’s more than welcome.