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Did America voted in an enemy as their president????

Entirely possible:

"The former head of Kazakhstan’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."

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5162890-assessing-...

Americans have a long history of convincing themselves that their president is a Russian agent

Really? I don't remember that. When was the last example?

Certainly the Republican presidents never came under such suspicion.

Eisenhower was accused of being a communist. Look up John Birch Society.

This is exactly what I was thinking of but could not remember the name of that society

Good point, but those guys were complete psychos. They had zero actual grounds for suspicion compared to the behavior Trump has exhibited, over and over, in plain sight.

Entirely feasible and yet I can’t imagine any kompromat from a visit to Moscow - sexual or financial - hanging over Trumps head today.

It's not about Trump. The FBI was pretty sure that the Russians hacked both the DNC and RNC servers in the leadup to the 2016 election, but strangely, we only got to see the DNC's dirty laundry.

It seems likely that the entire GOP is a captive asset of Putin. If not, it's hard to imagine what they would do differently.

If this is how we are finally defeated as a world power, it's hard to say anything but "Well played, I guess."

I personally dont think Trump works for FSB/KGB (he is just naturally attracted to russias authoritarianism) but I guess if you had kompromat on someone back then and pressured them to commit treason then it does not matter what they did back then in the first place because the action of betreaying your country would in itself be kompromat: Keep on cooperating or we will everyone you committed treason.

I bet that is how they get many people hooked. Commit one treason for money and after that you own them because you know they committed treason.

You don’t need kompromat if you are the FSB. The carrot is your family gets to join the oligarch club, which has always been a fascination for Trump ever since he managed to piss away most of the fortune he inherited.

The stick is that we will kill your children and everyone you care about if you turn your back on us. You too, if it’s not hard, but we don’t even care at that point.

The FSB shares that kind of reach with the USA and Isreal only on the global stage, and they have made it into a principal resource for projecting influence.

Think for a second. What motivation would the KGB have to tell the American people that Trump is a KGB asset?

Wrong answers only! Go

The KGB is a truth-seeking agent with a mandate to not lie

The KGB wants to help us help ourselves

The KGB wants us to know we’re beaten

Haha, it’s really funny that people will believe this guy. You have to have an IQ three standard deviations below to be convinced that your opponent is your best source of information.

I mean doesn't help that he continues to spout Russia propaganda and seems to support Russia's interests over America's. At this point it doesn't matter because America is destabilized anyway.

Youre so right!

This is a nonsensical question. The KGB doesn't exist anymore. The people talking are former Soviets but aren't Russians.

Once a Marine always a Marine

Even if you've effectively defected to another country as these guys have?

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