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Trump = Krasnov? Magic Disappearing DB Story About Spy Chief Allegations Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987.

www.dailykos.com Magic Disappearing DB Story About Spy Chief Allegations Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987.

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...

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At this point I really don't know whether to believe that Trump is literally a Russian asset. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, we need to wait for actual evidence to know for sure.
But I'm finding it more interesting right now watching how people are reacting to the possibility that Trump is a Russian asset. I'm thinking a lot of people would rather believe that it was true, because that way it would mean America didn't do this to themselves. Much nicer to believe that some Machiavellian spy plot had been pulled and America had been hoodwinked than to believe that America had simply elected this ridiculous parody of a human being because they wanted to.
- Lemmygrad.ml is filled with only positive articles about president Trump. Think about that.
- Literally? Doubt it. Effectively - absolutely agree.
- America did do that to themselves, either elected a evil, greedy and a complete moron, or a russian asset... or both...
  In any case they did that, the ones that voted for him and the others that did not vote at all "since both parties are the same"
  
  A large majority of his voter base has had Fox News propoganda shoved down their throats for the last 30 years. The division in this country was intentionally sowed by bad actors.
  Trump, Putin, and Elon just used that division to manipulate his base, and twist the narrative into something they would accept. America was lied to
  
  Lied to yes, but also stupid and arrogant enough to believe it.
- I don't have any evidence to suggest one way or the other that Trump is or is not a Russian asset. But I think the news-worthiness of this post is not necessarily the supposed turning of Trump, but with the story was scrubbed.
  A notable news outlet merely reported something said by a well-known ex-intelligence operative. That is legitimate news. And if they got what the ex-intelligence operative said wrong typically, a news outlet would update the story and issue a retraction. Instead they just deleted it, and so did everyone else, and I think the reasons for that is a valuable thing to think about.

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