Yesterday I suggested that Donald Trump was doing Putin’s bidding because of Putin flattering him. There must be more to it than that.
In Trump’s first
presidency I wondered if Putin had perhaps bought some of Trump’s business
debts, of which he had many, and was holding that over him. I thought it would have
to be at least half a billion. But that seems unlikely – there has been no
evidence turn up and I doubt that mere money would make Trump do what he is
doing now.
Then there is the sex angle. Does Putin have compromising photos of Trump with prostitutes from his visits to Moscow? A week after Trump’s election, November 12, 2024, Russian state-owned TV showed several nude photos of his wife Melania (these were published photos from her modelling days, not new or hacked photos). After Donald’s convictions regarding the Stormy Daniels affair and E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault, I doubt that anything could embarrass him or sway his voting base. Certainly not enough to make Donald betray his country against his will. Speculation at the time suggested the nudies on TV was Putin’s way of reminding Trump that they owned him. But it doesn’t explain how they came to own him.
Thom Hartmann in his February
19, 2025 post “Does Putin Own Trump?” lists many connections between Donald Trump
and Russia.
· Real estate
money laundering in New York in the 1990s
· Hundreds
of contacts and at least 38 meetings between Russian operatives and Trump’s
2016 presidential campaign
· Paul
Manafort (who worked for Russia in 2010 to help elect a Russian puppet as
Ukraine’s president) admitted feeding information about Trump’s 2016 campaign to
Russian intelligence
· Trump
had a habit of taking national security-compromising top secret documents to
hostile nations and leaving them in unsecured hotel rooms
· Trump
tried on 10 occasions to obstruct the FBI investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 election (and of course he has now fired every agent
that worked on the case)
· Russian
intelligence and Putin’s “inner circle” celebrated Donald’s win as a great
victory for Russia
· The hours
long secret phone calls with Putin (more than 20 in his first presidency)
· Trump
sent Senator Rand Paul to hand deliver a secret document to Putin in July 2018.
Ten days later the CIA’s sources inside Moscow suddenly “went silent”.
· The stolen
documents stored (unsecured) at Mar-a-Lago* - were these taken to sell or
trade? or just to show off??
· Months after
Trump took the boxes of documents to Mar-a-Lago, CIA warned their people “about
troubling numbers of informants recruited from other countries to spy for the
United States being captured or killed”. Coincidence?
If Trump is compromised
and secretly (not so secretly lately) working for Russia, how long has this
been going on?
Michael Sellers in his
post on February 23, 2025, takes a closer look at claims by former KGB officer
Alnur Mussayev that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987. Sellers
should know what he’s writing about – he was a Russia specialist with the CIA.
Trump was undoubtedly on
the KGB radar as a possible asset ever since his marriage in 1977 to Ivanka Zelnickova,
a Czech model. Czechoslovakia was part of the Warsaw Pact at that time and
Czech intelligence was cooperating closely with the KGB.
After returning from the
1987 trip to Russia, Trump spent $100,000 on full page ads criticizing US
foreign policy, arguing that America was being taken advantage of by other
countries not paying their share (sound familiar?). The ads didn’t name NATO
but the description fits.
Sellers explains that “kompromat”,
threatening to reveal compromising information or photos, is not the most
common or best tool of espionage recruitment. More effective are situations of mutual
benefit, which fits in perfectly with Trump’s mindset. And Trump is an expert
in adapting his beliefs to whatever is most expedient. The most valuable
recruited assets come to completely support your position. Trump’s actions in the
last week regarding Ukraine strongly suggest this is the case here.
Sellers concludes by
describing the claim of Trump being recruited by the KGB in 1987 as “a
possibility not to be excluded”.
* Man, I wish Joe Biden
had pardoned the two other defendants in the Florida documents case (he knew
Trump would anyway) and released the report himself (using the Supreme Court’s
get out of jail free card).
Sources:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-melania-trumps-nude-190000869.html
https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-putin-own-trump-48b
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/cia-informants-killed-captured.html
https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/a-deeper-look-at-claims-by-kgb-officer
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