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Originally Posted by Damien
Again, you have to ask if a literal Putin plant in the White House would be doing anything different to what Trump is doing.
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Talking about Russian assets
There is a humorous story about Trump being recruited 40 years by Russia and being even given a code name: "Krasnov". The story seems to have been pulled from US web sites:
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/...-Russian-Asset
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So earlier today, the Daily Beast’s Isabel van Brugen published a bombshell story about allegations by Kazakh Spy Chief Alnur Mussayev that the KGB had recruited Donald Trump as a Soviet Asset way back in 1987 under the code name “Krasnov.”
I expected to see this story covered heavily here, but nary a peep, and within hours, it was scrubbed from both the Daily Beast’s site, as well as various other outlets on the internet. There is no retraction on the Daily Beast site, or even any acknowledgment that the story existed, and several republishers have pulled the story as well.
If you go to Google news and search “Trump Krasnov,” you may still find a couple of sites where the story, either in the van Brugen version, or under other bylines, is still up, but they are dropping like flies.
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Now, who knows if the story is true or not but the response to the story is interesting ... In fact, the story has been around for a while:
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
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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.
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