The former head of Kazakhstanā€™s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate mogul first visited Moscow.

The allegation would, if true, be a bombshell. Mussayev provides no documentary evidence ā€”but then how could he? He alleged that Trumpā€™s file is in Vladimir Putinā€™s hands.

Mussayev isnā€™t the only ex-KGB officer to have made such an assertion. Several years ago, Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major now resident in Washington, D.C., served as one of the key sources for Craig Ungerā€™s best-selling book, ā€œAmerican Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery.ā€

Just after Mussayev made his claim, another ex-KGB officer living in France, Sergei Zhyrnov, categorically endorsed the allegations in an interview with a Ukrainian journalist. According to Zhyrnov, Trump would have been surrounded 24/7 by KGB operatives, including everyone from his cab driver to the maid servicing his hotel room. Zhyrnov said that Trumpā€™s every move would have been recorded and documented, and that he could have been either caught in a ā€œhoney trapā€ (ā€œAll foreign-currency prostitutes were KGB ā€” one hundred percent,ā€ he said) or perhaps recorded bribing Moscow city officials in order to promote his idea of building a hotel in the Soviet capital.

  • Emberleaf
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    21ā€¢5 days ago

    Iā€™m highly doubtful that any of this can actually be proven. I donā€™t doubt it for one minute, but I really doubt thereā€™s any way to actually prove this. Unless some ā€˜smoking gunā€™ documents or other surveillance can be produced (good luck).

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Alnur Mussayev does not claim that he can prove it. He is just saying he saw the proof with his own eyes when he was a Soviet KGB officer. But this does mean that the proof exists. If anybody from an ex-Soviet country kept copies of KGB archives, or anybody inside Russia leaks copies of those archives, then the proof would become public.

    • @[email protected]
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      in many cases he was proven guilty but still no action was taken during impeachments for his first mandate and in front of judges.
      Here the problem (i.m.opinion) is the will of the people and of the system.

  • Thoralf Will
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    Wouldnā€™t surprise me the slightest bit. He certainly acts like a KGB asset.

    • @[email protected]
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      I was going to say a KGB asset wouldnā€™t be so dumb and blatant about their support, but then I remembered the whole ā€œThe Simsā€ incident lol

  • @[email protected]
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    7ā€¢5 days ago

    This is just as likely to be misinformation as much as it is to be true. Regardless, trump is clearly operating in Putinā€™s interests, and that is a problem.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1ā€¢3 days ago

      We know this personā€™s name --> Alnur Mussayev.

      And it is very easy for reporters to confirm this personā€™s identity.

      The only way it would be possible for this to be ā€œmisinformationā€, is for this former top Soviet intelligence officer to be making this up. Itā€™s not impossible, but this is obviously a very credible source.

      • @[email protected]
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        Members of the KGB would never lie!

        Seriously though, I believe it, the story tracks, but itā€™s an unsupported assertion

      • @[email protected]
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        Thatā€™s exactly what I was saying. It is just as likely heā€™s intentionally spreading misinformation.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          Itā€™s not. This person is from Khazakastan. He is not American and has no vested interest in our internal politics. He has no motive to make up something like this.

  • @[email protected]
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    2ā€¢5 days ago

    Iā€™m the former head of some former Soviet intelligence agency, too. We totally hired Trump in exchange for paying his debts, or something. Whatever youā€™ll believe

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Iā€™m the former head of some former Soviet intelligence agency, too

      Can you prove that?

      Because we know this personā€™s name --> Alnur Mussayev.

      And it is very easy for reporters to confirm this personā€™s identity. This is very obviously a credible source.

      Also, Traitorapist Trump being a Russian asset makes perfect sense in light of how he has behaved towards Russia.

  • @[email protected]
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    1ā€¢4 days ago

    Good. That means all his children are spies and hopefully someone will prove it so we never vote for any of them or any Republican ever again.