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Should this all turn out true, it does certainly explain a lot.
Daily Mail reports that a new book by Craig Unger, entitled House of Trump, House of Putin; the Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, claims that President Trump is and has been a Russian asset since 1987.
In 1987 Donald Trump travelled to Moscow, and Unger says that the former head of counterintelligence for the KGB, Oleg Kalugin, insists that Trump would have very likely been filmed with prostitutes at that time, saying that Trump had many young ladies at his disposal and that Russian spies would have jumped at the opportunity.
Kalugin also claims that Trump is an easy Russian asset considering how greedy he has been over the years. He goes as far as saying that Trump is most likely aware of the existence of blackmail material often referred to as kompromat.
If Russia was likely willing to gather kompromat on Trump 31 years ago, it would seem to give further credence to the Steele Dossier which claims that Russia had gathered kompromat on Trump back in 2013 as well. Its worth noting that no proof of this blackmail material was provided to Unger by Kalugin only his opinion on what most likely would have taken place at the time of Trumps visit to Moscow.
https://hillreporter.com/former-top-kgb-general-says-trump-is-a-russian-asset-and-he-likely-knows-it-5526/amp
triron
(22,019 posts)Maxheader
(4,374 posts)Make put put tell all? Throw out any advantages from having a
russian spy in the presidency of your worst enemy?
Pluvious
(4,315 posts)... to his Asset's actual power.
As long as its usefulness outweighs the value of unmasking it, he'll continue the current course.
History will not be kind to our obliviousness and complacency.
If we fail to turn out in record numbers and remove the accomplices from office, we'll have none but ourselves to blame.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)I have often wondered about his two Eastern European wives who were born in USSR affiliated communist countries.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)It defies logic that she would have stayed with him through his infidelities if she was a *normal* spouse. Maybe it seems like I'm a conspiracy theorist about this, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. She was placed.
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)However, I do have my doubts about that now. I feel that she is verbally and who knows how else abused, and Trump keeps her under his thumb. She is very frustrated and is starting to show that publicly. What I do suspect is her father, who I understand used to work for Russia. Now he and his wife are both US citizens. I think that Melania, due to her beauty, was a very convenient way fior her father to get close to Trump.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Well, I guess so, if you think that Cruella de Vil was beautiful.
Texin
(2,597 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)However she did make a living as a model.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)No, she is not in any way shape or form....beautiful.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)That was my impression.
Uncle Joe
(58,414 posts)would be totally logical for them to have dirt on Trump.
Thanks for the thread Pluvious
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Getting caught doing kinky sex is the ultimate dirt for them, even if the man or woman caught was single. Russia has a pretty long history of using beautiful young women to compromise powerful men.
Uncle Joe
(58,414 posts)considering Trump's unrestrained sexual history combined with his fatal flaw of extreme self-aggrandizement and propensity to flattery would make him an exceptionally easy mark.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)sueh
(1,826 posts)had anything on Trump, they would have revealed it by now?
mountain grammy
(26,646 posts)orangecrush
(19,616 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,272 posts)How did we ever get into this mess, and how is it that we can't get out of it?
Ok, foreign powers found a Constitutional loophole, and a willing GOP to exploit it. Now what?
Brother Buzz
(36,461 posts)Craig Unger's book will outsell Omarosa tell-all trash book.
7962
(11,841 posts)regardless of the accuracy of the book it will sell and she'll get a nice tour out of it
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)My guess, #1 and #2 on the best seller list for weeks, if not months.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)The last line in the excerpt says that it's just speculation.
If it is true, they can't blackmail Trump for something he would be proud of.
UTUSN
(70,728 posts)turbinetree
(24,713 posts)if all of these "judges" being put on the bench, can they be removed, after all if this fucker is a "asset" and most of the evidence is showing that he is, then everyone of these fuckers being put the bench, should be removed.........................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................vote
thbobby
(1,474 posts)on trump and the entire gop as he enabled their electoral wins in 2016 and probably several previous elections. Russian money through NRA and other venues. Social Media manipulation. trump and the gop are compromised by their lust for power enabled by Russia. Any other kompromat they may have pales in comparison to the gop traitors conspiring with Russia to maintain electoral relevance.
Sneederbunk
(14,298 posts)trueblue2007
(17,237 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)that it would bother him to have been filmed with prostitutes, even if they peed on him, is something I don't believe. I believe, were it true, he'd take pride in it. I believe he's on the take for putin, via the Russian mob, but it has nothing to do with sex as it has to do with finance.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)For some reason, it took until just now for me to realize Trump is probably proud that he is a Russian asset. He loves attention so much that I wouldn't be surprised at all that he's very flattered and proud that the Russians wanted him. It gives him some status and that is exactly what he craves most.
He probably revels in all of this and views himself like he's some sort of secret agent man.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)He sees himself as this:
But the majority of Americans and people around the world see him as this
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)someone other than a Democrat.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)he's been in it up to his eyeballs for YEARS! Duh.
lastlib
(23,280 posts)And he has security clearance. Sh&it!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)The KGB, and now FSB, have long targeted self-centered narcissistic wealthy right wingers because they're so self-absorbed that it's easy to "turn" them - even when it was the Soviet Union and essentially the opposite politically from these right wingers.
Nance speculates they may have started gathering info on Trump as far back in the late 70s when he was married to Ivana Trump and visited Czechoslovakia to meet her family.
This definitely seems to be in line with that kind of thinking