Putin's Razor: Yet More Evidence That Trump is a Kremlin Asset

Donald has aligned himself, and by extension the United States of America, with a petty, cruel, genocidal tyrant.

In the past week, Donald Trump has compelled the United States to oppose—along with noted stalwarts of democracy Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Nicaragua—a U.N. motion condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, thus not just tacitly but explicitly endorsing Putin’s war of aggression; dispatched his flaccid Secretary of State to Riyadh, to meet with Russian officials to negotiate a “peace” in Ukraine without involving Ukraine; continued to publicly disrespect “dictator” President Zelenskyy; sent his smug Vice President to Munich to insist, falsely, that the greatest threat to Europe was not Russian aggression but the suppression of free speech with regards to Nazis; offered Putin the moon in exchange for nothing in Ukraine after a 90-minute phone call with the Russian strongman; and decreed on Truth Social, in his usual poorly constructed paragraph-block of Kremlin-talking-point nonsense, that Ukraine is somehow the aggressor in its invasion by Russia—that Kyiv was asking for it, like the country was one of Donald’s numerous sexual assault victims.

Taken together, this is fundamentally no different than FDR throwing in with Hitler in 1940, blaming the invasion of Poland on the Poles, and disseminating Nazi propaganda about Jews.

We have long known that Putin wants America sick, broke, less secure, and at war with itself. Well, in the first few weeks of the Redux, Trump has entrusted 1) the nation’s health services to whale-beheading crackpot RFK, Jr., who wants to terminate vaccines, cancer research, pandemic preparedness, and access to SSRIs; 2) the country’s intelligence apparatus to cultist turncoat Tulsi Gabbard, who is so steeped in Kremlin propaganda she sweats shitty vodka; and 3) the oversight of the government bureaucracy to Elon Musk, a ketamine-addled Nazi weirdo who talks to Putin regularly, and whose plan for “efficiency” involves firing a huge swath of federal employees, abruptly abandoning our soft-power development programs all around the world, and crashing the economy. Meanwhile, one of the first things Donald’s new Attorney General did was to ease the rules on cavorting with hostile foreign governments.

None of that helps Americans. All of it helps Russia.

Donald forced the CIA to send in a list of two thousand of its recent hires—via regular, unencrypted email, so the information could be hacked and thus accessed by the Russians, the Chinese, and God knows who else. Why would he do that? What earthly reason would he insist on that, other than to out those CIA employees and thus effectively put them out of commission—all to the benefit of Moscow (and Beijing)? You can ponder that for the rest of his time in office and not come up with a valid reason that doesn’t involve traitorousness.

Once again—and louder, for the people in the back—Donald’s second-term priorities are focused not on making America great again (whatever that means) but on helping the Kremlin achieve its aims. Seriously: if Trump were explicitly trying to help Russia…what exactly would he have done differently these last five weeks?

And if all of that isn’t enough to convince you that Donald Trump is a Russian asset (or stooge, or vassal, or gimp, or whatever word you want to use)…

. . . or Donald making off with all those classified documents after he left office…

. . . or “do me a favor, though”…

. . . or his complete capitulation in Helsinki, when Donald snuck off alone with Putin for a covert meeting and made sure the translator didn’t say boo about what was discussed…

. . . or the conclusion reached by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee in Volume 5 of its Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 Election—signed off on by the current Secretary of State, the aforementioned hollow man Marco Rubio—that Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chair, was sharing polling data with an FSB agent who specializes in election tampering…

. . . or the conclusions laid out in the Mueller Report…

. . . or Donald laughing his ass off with the two Russian officials in the Oval Office the day after he fired Jim Comey for investigating his Russian ties…

. . . or Manafort pleading guilty to Conspiracy Against the United States for his shady 2016 election activities…

. . . or longtime Trump BFF Roger Stone being found guilty of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness…

. . . or Jared Kushner, at a secret December 2016 meeting with Mike Flynn and Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, trying to set up a backchannel with Moscow in the Russian embassy…

. . . or Kushner meeting that same month with former KGB agent Sergei Gorkov, head of a sanctioned Russian state bank, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York—and Gorkov immediately leaving that meeting and flying directly to Moscow to see Putin…

. . . or the Steele dossier, and the fact that Christopher Steele—a highly respected intelligence professional who came out of MI6, the intelligence service of our closest ally—went to enormous personal risk to warn Washington about Trump’s ties to the Kremlin…

. . . or all 17 agencies in the U.S. Intelligence Community saying that Russia interfered in the campaign—and Donald believing Putin’s flat denial instead…

. . . or “Russia, if you’re listening”…

. . . or Manafort, Kushner, and Donald Jr. secretly meeting with a Putin representative at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, because they thought she had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton…

. . . or the fact that the only change in the Republican Party platform at the 2016 RNC involved making the official GOP position on Ukraine/Crimea more in line with Moscow’s—at Donald’s personal request…

. . . or Kevin McCarthy remarking—in what he thought was a private conversation with Paul Ryan—that he thought Trump was being paid by Moscow…

. . . or whatever went down at the Ritz-Carlton Moscow during Donald’s trip there in 2013…

. . . or Mark Burnett only making The Apprentice because the show he really wanted to make with Vladimir Putin was a no-go…

. . . or how Donald visited Moscow in 1987, at the behest of the wife of the Russian ambassador he happened to be sitting next to at a gala, and as soon as he came back started talking about running for president and also how NATO sucked…

. . . or how Trump Tower was a hotbed for Russian mobsters…

. . . or how when the FBI finally tracked down notorious Russian mafia kingpin Vyacheslav Ivankov, he was at Trump Tower…

. . . or how Donald helped launder money by selling condos to known Russian crime associate David Bogatin…

. . . or how, as Craig Unger writes in American Kompromat, Donald was first “spotted” as a KGB asset in 1980, when he was buying TV sets for the Grand Hyatt at Joy-Lud, a KGB front slash electronics store…

. . . or how Unger’s source was Yuri Shvets, now on our side, then a prominent KGB agent working in the United States…

. . . or Donald’s marriage to the formidable Ivana Zelníčková, who somehow magically made it to New York from Communist Czechoslovakia…

. . . or his relationship with Roy Cohn…

. . . or the fact that pretty much every single move he’s made since the Carter Administration has been to do the bidding of the KGB, the Russian mob, or Putin.

[gasps for breath]

If all of that doesn’t make the case, two more pieces of evidence emerged this week linking Donald with the KGB.

First, Alnur Mussayev—who was the head of the KNB, the chief intelligence service in Kazakhstan, after a long career at the KGB during the Soviet period—confirmed on a Facebook post that Donald was a Kremlin asset:

In 1987, I served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of ​​work of the 6th Directorate was the recruitment of businessmen from capitalist countries. It was that year that our Office recruited 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump, under the pseudonym “Krasnov.”

And then:

In the activity of intelligence agencies, as in life, everything is possible, even the wildest and incredible things. For example, recruitment of future leaders of state and even the President of the United States.

And, okay, sure, this may just be an old Soviet spook making mischief. Old habits die hard, even in Kazakhstan. Except that, in addition to the hardly exhaustive list of circumstantial evidence I have laid out here pointing at Donald working for Moscow—not to mention the confirmation provided to Unger by KGB defector Shvets, or the fact that, as I was personally told, KGB guys working security at a London business conference 30 years ago were openly bragging that Trump was one of theirs—Mussayev’s claim is corroborated by the Soviet defector Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, who brought over a vast tranche of classified material on KGB operations. As a user called Shuffles points out on BlueSky, the notes to the book The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West contains a reference to “Krasnov”—Donald’s alleged KGB codename:

This “Krasnov” was cultivated at the end of 1981—which squares with the dates supplied by Shvets via Unger—and “an investigation was undertaken of KRASNOV’s finances, home and leisure pursuits, and he was secretly photographed.” (Krasnov, incidentally, means something like “beautiful boy,” which is exactly how Roy Cohn viewed Donald at the time.)

Now it may well be that Mussayev had nothing better to do than comb through the Mitrokhin book looking for “personnel under cultivation” who fit the dates of Donald’s alleged initial recruitment, decided Krasnov would fit the bill, and is simply spreading dezinformatsiya. KGB guys are O.G. trolls. But it’s more likely that this disclosure comes at Putin’s behest, to make Donald look like a chump owned by the Kremlin. Which is easy to do, because that’s what he is.

At this point, what happened in 1981 or 1987 or 2016 doesn’t really matter. In 2025, in his second term, Donald has once again taken up the Kremlin’s cause. He’s done it brazenly and publicly. He has aligned himself—and, by extension, the United States of America—with a cruel, petty, genocidal tyrant who hates us, and who wants our nation destroyed. After the last week, the evidence for that is incontrovertible.

Continuing to deny what’s staring us in the face only helps our enemies.

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Further reading:

Tinker, Tailor, Mobster, Trump

From Trump to tRUmp: How the Mob’s Man Became Putin’s Puppet

Bloody Mob Sh*t: An Interview with Lincoln's Bible

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Photo credit: The Kremlin. Vladimir Putin instructs his underling Donald Trump at APEC Summit in Da Nang, Vietnam, 11 November 2017.