Explosive new book claims the KGB began grooming 'young and vain' Donald Trump 40 years ago

[FM123]

...by saving him from financial ruin and turned him into a Russian asset who gave Putin 'everything he wanted' as president.

(DailyMail) Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset more than 40 years ago which exploded into a decades-long 'relationship' of mutual benefit to both Russia and Trump, a shocking new book claims.

Trump was rescued multiple times from multiple bankruptcies by boatloads of Russian cash laundered through his real estate in the 80s and 90s, the author asserts. Russian money also picked up the tab for buildings franchised under Trump's name.

An invitation to Russia by a high-level KGB official in 1987 under the guise of a preliminary scouting trip to build a Trump hotel in Moscow, was in fact 'deep development' by KGB handlers that furthered creating secret back channels and allowed the Russians to influence and damage American democracy, the author claims.


When Trump became President, it was time to pay the piper and Trump gave Putin everything he wanted, the author writes. Author Craig Unger makes the revelations in his new book, American Kompromat, How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power and Treachery. Unger is a journatist and author of six books, including the New York Times bestsellers House of Bush, House of Saud, and House of Trump, House of Putin.

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[bluestarone]

1. Will we ever discover just what RUMP gave Russia

I fear not!

[Dan]

40. He gave them 'the belief in American Democracy'.

[secondwind]

47. He ignored them and whatever mischief they were making

🤬🤬

[DBoon]

59. He gave them the middle east

and let them keep Crimea

[DonaldsRump]

2. So Craig Unger can figure this out, but

Robert "Bobby 3-Sticks" Mueller and his crack team of lawyers and investigators couldn't?

President Biden's AG should release the Mueller Report, unredacted to the fullest extent possible, so we can really understand what Mueller found and what he investigated (and did NOT investigate).

[brush]

6. Mueller, who we all had so much faith in, was the wrong choice...

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to head the trump/Russia probe as we came to find out, unfortunately, that he was past his prime.

And then of course Barr came on the scene and shut the investigation down before it was completed. He saved the Russian asset from being revealed.

[samsingh]

15. Mueller was and is horrible.

mueller betrayed the country

[WyattKansas]

31. To be fair to Mueller, he was VERY limited on what he could look at and how far he pushed.

Otherwise the Petulant Crybaby would throw a tantrum and fire him and his team. And the Petulant Crybaby had his 'Yes Men' controlling the funding and Mueller's investigation, regardless of how much they played their part for the public. If you want to blame someone, first look at who was in charge of Mueller in the Republican's warped view of an independent investigator that resembled the opposite of what Kenneth Starr was allowed to sniff with a hard-on.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Agreed, but surely Mueller could have found a way to get the message out "Follow the (whatever was)"

Surely Mueller must know there is bigger stuff yet to be revealed, even if he only got a glimpse.

[secondwind]

48. Mueller did say that "if there had NO COLLUSION he w oils have said so"

THAT was our clue.....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

50. Good point to remind us of. Thanks! . . . nt

[DeminPennswoods]

54. Woodward details in his book

how narrowly Mueller's investigation was defined and that Rosenstein managed it much more closely than almost everyone knew.

[samsingh]

42. i think he could have said something like "we would have indicted if we were able to"

i don't believe he could be stopped from that statement

i think Mueller was a plant from the beginning and that's the reason trump did not force his firing

[LiberalLovinLug]

46. I can only imagine the phone calls at night from Graham and others

berating and threatening him. Graham had no problem calling the Georgia governor and requesting he throw out votes, so I'm sure he and others were relentlessly pestering Mueller all the time during the investigation. "You'd better not........or else......."

Still Mueller could have resisted if he chose to. Even if it meant being ostracized by his own lifelong party. IMO he was cowing to his party over country. And easily capitulated. Which included remaining silent as much as possible about it to the media.

[Mr.Bill]

63. I'll judge Mueller

when I see his report without Barr's redactions.

[brush]

64. Fair enough. I'd like to see the unredacted report too.

But IMO he should've indicted trump. There's nothing in the Constitution against that. It's just a kind of gentleman's agreement that has prevailed over the years. But if such an agreement endanger the nation, it must be disregarded out of loyalty to the country.

After all, what were they going to do to Mueller, fire him, or put him in jail? No. And he was retired. He didn't need to worry about keeping his job.

[Mike 03]

9. Craig Unger stops just barely short of making this accusation in his first

book on Trump, House of Trump, House of Putin. He felt at the time he wrote it that he couldn't prove the case. Despite that, it is quite an important book. (It's just hard to keep all the Russian names straight. )

He has done a lot of serious work on this subject, earlier than other journalists. The only reason I stopped recommending the book is because it sort of got lost in the avalanche of Trump books that followed.

[treestar]

25. It is a lot easier to allege it in writing

than to prove it in court. In any event, Mueller thought the sitting President could not be indicted.

[DonaldsRump]

28. Yes, but he was still commissioned to do an investigation

If true, I would think a 4 decade old relationship between Trump and Russia might be slightly relevant to what "Bobby 3-Sticks" was investigating regarding Russian interference. An investigation does not automatically lead to an indictment.

[treestar]

29. How did the

Bobby 3 sticks name come about? I have not heard that before !

[DonaldsRump]

34. I think it's used because he is Robert Mueller III

...and apparently the three-fingered Boy Scouts' salute: https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-thingsmueller-0325-story.html

As with many of us, I was deeply disappointed Mueller, his team, and his findings. I compare him and them to the Watergate Special Prosecution Task Force and its great leaders Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski and their staff (many of whom became very prominent lawyers in their own right). There is NO comparison.

Apparently, Mueller and his team were afraid of being fired (which actually happened to Archibald Cox), so they limited their investigation to avoid that. That is not smart....that's chicken.

I cannot stand hearing Mueller's top staff now telling us about how bad Trump is/was (e.g., Andrew Weissman). There was a time and place for this, and that was during the investigation.

When I use Bobby Three Sticks, I'm sorry to say it's derisively. I simply cannot believe he let himself be played by Trump. That's why I am hoping that the release of the Mueller Report unredacted to the maximum extent possible might shed some light on what Mueller and his team really found. I don't think we know that. However, Mueller had plenty of opportunities to set the record straight, if it needed straightening, and the most prominent was his July 2019 testimony before Congress. He was basically incoherent, which again played into Trump and Barr's hands. Indeed, the very next day, Trump was emboldened enough to make his calls to Ukraine to find dirt on Joe Biden, an act which directly led to Trump's impeachment.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

38. Also would show just what Barr redacted, which would be clues to what tRump Gang hiding. . . nt

[colorado_ufo]

44. Actually, there was nothing to figure out.

It was pretty much all in plain sight, including the real estate deals with Russians who vastly overpaid for the properties. All of it, the money laundering, the business failures, the corruption, the secret then revealed meetings with Russian assets, the unusual number of Russians occupying his properties, the beauty contest in Moscow, Trump's absolute failure to confront Putin about anything either during the campaign or the presidency, his obsequience to Putin, the invites of Russian notables to the Oval Office and ban of the US press at the meeting, and on and on. Jared's attempt to establish a back channel from the Russian Embassy to the Kremlin. Can you even begin to imagine what we DON'T know?

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

Surveillance of Trump began even earlier in 1977 when he married Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech national from a district where the secret police force was in league with the KGB and Trump was already talking about wanting to be president one day.

Trump probably also appealed to the KGB because he was 'vain, narcissistic, highly susceptible to flattery and greedy'.

'With Trump it wasn't just weakness. Everything was excessive. His vanity, excessive, Narcissism, excessive. Greed, excessive. Ignorance, excessive', writes the author.

'Deeply insecure intellectually, highly suggestible, exceedingly susceptible to flattery, Trump was anxious to acquire some real intellectual validation - and the KGB would be more than happy to humor him,' the author added.

The author claims surveillance on Trump began in 1977 when he married Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech national from a district where the secret police force was in league with the KGB and Trump was already talking about wanting to be president one day (pictured in Russia)


In 1987 Donald and Ivana Trump visited Palace Square in St.Petersburg, Russia. The author says the invitation to Russia by a high-level KGB official in 1987 under the guise of a preliminary scouting trip to build a Trump hotel in Moscow, was in fact 'deep development' by KGB handlers that furthered creating secret back channels and allowed the Russians to influence and damage American democracy

[Mike 03]

14. Thank you for posting this.

I don't think I'll be able to resist this yet-another-Trump book.

[highplainsdem]

37. That's what I read years ago, too -- that Trump was on their radar as soon as he married Ivana.

[liberal_mama]

4. I've read a number of Trump biographies. Trump's ties to Russia was discussed in them

and this was long before he ran for president.

[The Blue Flower]

5. Well this looks like a fun read (ick)

"Epstein had made videotapes of sexual acts that he could use for blackmail or kompromat – compromising material - and photos of Trump with a bevy of young girls and girls giggling at the semen stains on Trump's pants when in the company of the under eighteen-year olds and he couldn't hold back his 'excitement'."

That said, Craig Unger is a credible researcher.

[dawg day]

8. Whatever happened to all the Epstein videos?

I remember it was claimed the FBI and police had found a cache of tapes when they raided his mansion. Never heard any more.

[oldsoftie]

53. Never heard anymore because of all the names on them.

And it wasnt just trump i'm sure

[pandr32]

13. Good Gawd! Gak!!!

I immediately went (mentally) to the image of him biting his lower lip (his excited rat face) while with Jeffrey Epstein at a party surrounded by young women/girls.

[Totally Tunsie]

7. The Russians play the long game.

They'll work and wait patiently for years to develop their targets.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

19. Republicans also play a long game

For decades they've been systematically destroying our government,making it smaller..and smaller to drown it in a bathtub.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. I could be wrong. But I seem to remember Criag Unger being pretty legit. nt

[Mike 03]

11. Thank you for the heads up.

I was a big fan of House of Trump, House of Putin.

[dclarston13]

12. Lincolns Bible on twitter

Has laid all this out sometime ago. As have some others. I think for the most part intelligence agencies don't care, or he is a double agent. I doubt the latter.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. And our intelligence svcs have mentioned that rump was possibly a compromised Russian asset

yet the traitorous republicans all still are in lockstep w/ rump still. Time to do some major house cleaning. Permanent and serious house cleaning.

[colorado_ufo]

49. Possibly?

Well, that's pretty generous!

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

17. 3 words. Russia. Solar Winds. nt

[Skraxx]

18. Duh

[DSandra]

20. It has been obvious that Trump was a Russian asset given...

Not only how he went out of his way to deflect criticism of Russia, or his coziness with the Russians, but how on just about every major decision domestically, he did the Opposite of what your supposed to do, in a way that would further weaken America, from screwing NATO and the reversal of the TPP to the coronavirus and the sedition campaign and attempted insurrection.

[superpatriotman]

21. Who are they grooming now?

Elon? Bezos?

[colorado_ufo]

51. Hawley?

Cruz is almost too weak even for them.

[FuzzyRabbit]

22. What other republicans are Russian assets?

Moscow Mitch? Rand Paul? Most of the republican senate?

I find it hard to believe that Trump is the only one. I am sure that the Russians have other assets in place already, and more in the works.

[Walleye]

24. The senators who vacationed in Moscow on Fourth of July, definitely

[dhill926]

45. exactly...

can't believe this didn't get more play....

[Tanuki]

30. Moscow Marsha Blackburn

https://tennesseelookout.com/2020/08/31/nashville-attorney-makes-cameo-appearance-in-senate-russian-interference-report/

[moondust]

23. As I suspected.

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The KGB saw Dump as a potential asset and may have used its espionage tools to track him. Old KGB man Putin probably had access to the kompromat they collected. The kleptocrats knew Dump had no morals or loyalty to anything but himself so they could easily manipulate him to launder rubles or otherwise do their bidding. I wouldn't rule out him compromising U.S. intelligence during those secret meetings with Putin. The seeds of SolarWinds?

Where are Epstein's "videotapes of sexual acts that he could use for blackmail or kompromat"?

K/R

[AntiFascist]

26. This should have been obvious. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

27. Putting money into Trump was the best investment Putin ever made.

[Mr.Bill]

32. Not very smart of the Russians to do that.

They should have cultivated someone who didn't have the intelligence of a six year old child.

[Cassielfsw]

70. This comment is very offensive

... To six-year-old children.

[Mr.Bill]

71. My sincere apologies

to all six year old kids.

[Firestorm49]

33. So how on God's good Earth did the idiot get vetted?

Intel knows much more than we do, so what went wrong? After all, we here at DU were fully aware of his failings just from press releases and things like the “pussy” video.

I think we have much more faith in our system than we should. Be thankful that the brown shirts aren’t already rounding us up. It was that close.

What a bunch of...........!

[LiberalArkie]

43. American public vetted Trump as President.

I believe Trumps days are over. Is Cotton or one of the new guys the new one?

[cstanleytech]

35. Its speculation however what might prove this is true is if Trump fails to sue the author.

After all if Trump does sue Trump can be forced to give a deposition under oath and that is the last thing a guilty person would probably want.

[TomVilmer]

39. Craig Unger's writing can be hard enough to trust without quoting it ...

... from the really unreliable "Daily Mail". Anyway, here is a link to a chapter from his new book in "Vanity Fair":
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/jeffrey-epstein-and-donald-trump-epic-bromance

[TNNurse]

41. But Eric admitted they get money from Russia.

[oldsoftie]

52. So where was all this info in Congress the past 4 yrs?

[Aussie105]

55. Not unusual for governments to establish links in foreign countries.

Russia saw Trump as a potentially useful idiot way early.

But he wouldn't be the only one Russia developed hooks into, playing the long game.

Not just Russia though, look closer to home and think of all the US 'influencing' in South America and the Middle East over the last century or so.
Some of it quite blatant and out in the open, other 'influencing' more subtle.

Some of it involved armed conflict, US boots on foreign soil.

Vietnam war for instance, conflict based on the 'Domino theory' of Communism creeping across Southern Asia and further South. Something that prompted Australian involvement in that war.

Probably no world power NOT doing any of that.

. . . . but we like to pretend it's only 'the bad guys' who do it, OUR country is as pure as the driven snow, right?

[burrowowl]

56. Very Interesting!

[FakeNoose]

57. American Kompromat is the title of the book - by Craig Unger

Full title is American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery

I've read other books by Mr. Unger that were quite well-researched.

[smirkymonkey]

58. K&R

[Sedona]

60. I read that book in 2018 when Malcolm Nance published it

https://g.co/kgs/pK51R5

[alphafemale]

61. Trump is like Fredo from The Godfather

Incredibly stupid.
Incredibly narcissistic.

And willing to sell out his family (country) for flattery and a few hookers.

[trueblue2007]

62. wow !!!!!!! HAS ANYONE HERE ordered or read the book yet?

[Faux pas]

65. Kicketty Kickin'

[Blue Owl]

66. K&R

[onenote]

67. If ttrue, it would represent a massive failure of our intelligence agencies under both parties

Personally, I'm not sure I buy it.

[NJCher]

68. Yeah

Let’s see....that would be massive failure #456 in a long line of them.

[Dirty Socialist]

69. K & R

This needs national attention!