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Why is it so hard to believe that Trump is a Russian asset?

Why is it so hard to believe that Trump is a Russian asset?

Kompromat and the betrayal of the West

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Mar 05, 2025
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On 8 November, 2024, the day after he won his second term, Putin’s propagandists treated the re-elected US president with a contempt that serious American journalists had declared impossible.

The Russians acted as if Trump were Putin’s plaything.

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