Roman Sheremeta

June 11, 2025

July 1987, Moscow, USSR — Trump, 41 years old, flies to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Yuri Dubinin.

Upon returning from Moscow, the bankrupt Trump suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and, without negotiation, purchases The Plaza Hotel for $407.5 million — a record price for a hotel.

What does this mean? There are several theories, one of which suggests that Trump is a russian asset.

Currently, three former KGB agents claim that Trump was recruited by russia. They allege that the KGB used flattery and business opportunities to appeal to Trump’s ambitions, aiming to recruit him as an asset.

Upon his return to the U.S., the then-apolitical Trump began loudly criticizing NATO, taking out full-page ads in The Washington Post on September 2, 1987.

These claims come from Alnur Mussayev, former KGB officer and ex-head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, as well as ex-KGB agents Yuri Shvets and Sergei Zhyrno, who now reside in the U.S. and France, respectively.

None of these former KGB operatives has provided direct evidence, but the fact that three agents, speaking at different times and from different locations, tell the same story suggests that the possibility should not be dismissed.

By now everyone can see that these allegations are very likely to be true – Trump’s behavior is telling. He has sided with russia and North Korea at the UN, has alienated Western allies with trade wars, and is destroying the U.S. from the inside.

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Fear and Loathing – Closer to the Edge 

Despite the constant negative press covfefe.

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The following appeared on the FB page of Alnur Mussayev 5 days ago. Closer To The Edge published a rough translation:

“No one is surprised anymore that Trump openly reports to Putin, calls him and dreams of a personal meeting. Everyone has long understood who is the master in their tandem, and who is the servant and agent Krasnov in the service of the FSB.

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Yesterday, Trump bragged to the American people that he once again got through to Putin, who gave him his attention for 75 minutes.

The US President kept silent about the sympathy he expressed to Putin in connection with Russia’s latest military and political defeat as a result of the Ukrainian unique complex strike codenamed “Web”.

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Putin expressed displeasure and irritation that Trump still cannot weaken Ukraine and remove Zelensky from the post of President of this country.

Trump made excuses to this, blamed the damned European Union and NATO, which he is weakening with all his might, said that not all the American people support him yet, so he is forced to maneuver.

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Trump reported that he, like Putin, had acquired loyal talking heads Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon, who furiously condemned Ukraine and Zelensky personally for the “treacherous” strike on strategic bombers peacefully parked at airports, bridges in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, and in Crimea. Putin said that Bannon and Flynn are too small figures. The talking heads should be, for example, a former US President or US security adviser like Dmitry Medvedev.

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Putin told Trump what a cruel blow he wants to inflict on Ukraine and one of the European countries and demanded that he not really react to this blow. He only allowed him to diplomatically express concern.

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I don’t know what greatness the American people feel inside the country, but the whole world sees that Trump, instead of “Make America Great Again,” is doing his utmost to humiliate the US in the international arena, making your country a vassal of Russia.”

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Closer To The Edge travelled to Vienna to meet Mussayev and is publishing interview extracts :

June 10, 2025

MEETING MUSSAYEV

CHAPTER 3: Who Is Alnur Mussayev?

Alnur Mussayev is not a conspiracy theorist. He’s a former spy chief who once ran Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee—the KNB. He wasn’t some mid-level desk jockey pushing paperclips across a Cold War relic. No. Mussayev was the head of the KNB, meaning he had keys to the whole paranoid kingdom: secret prisons, encrypted lines, burn phones, and the kind of backroom knowledge that makes oligarchs sweat through their thousand-dollar shirts.

And then, he pissed off the wrong people.

After falling out with the regime in the late ‘90s (read: trying to expose rampant corruption, torture, and the kind of casual murder that makes Game of Thrones look like The Great British Bake Off), Mussayev found himself targeted by his former colleagues. Not like “ooh you’re on our naughty list” targeted. More like “let’s try to poison you, chase you through Vienna, and make you disappear forever” targeted.

At one point, there were so many assassination attempts on his life, Vienna started to feel less like a city of art and culture and more like the set of a low-budget Jason Bourne sequel. He survived poisonings. He survived an actual kidnapping plot. He got arrested in Austria on bullshit charges filed by Kazakhstan’s authoritarian regime—and then walked out of court a free man after a judge basically went, “This guy’s for real, and y’all are full of shit.”

Let’s pause for a second. If someone tried to kill you once, you’d probably move to the woods and live off-grid with a raccoon named Kevin. Mussayev? He stayed in Europe and kept talking. Loudly. Publicly. About things that still make powerful men very, very nervous.

He’s not some exile chasing a comeback. He’s an exile because the truth he carries is too dangerous to say inside his home country without ending up in a pine box. He’s credible because he has nothing to gain and everything to lose. He already lost his country. He nearly lost his life. And yet, here he is—dropping KGB-coded bombshells on Facebook like your uncle posts barbecue tips.

Is his story shocking? Yes. Wild? Definitely. But you don’t have to believe every word he says to understand this: Mussayev is not stupid, and he is not reckless. He knows the risk. He knows the cost. And he knows things—things most people would never say out loud unless they had nothing left to fear.

So when Alnur Mussayev says Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB under the codename “Krasnov,” maybe don’t roll your eyes and call him crazy.

Maybe ask:

Why is the guy who’s survived multiple assassination attempts suddenly posting like he’s ready to die?

And more importantly:

Why is no one in power asking him what else he knows?

Because if Mussayev’s lying, he’s doing it in the most suicidal way possible.

And if he’s not lying?

Then holy shit.

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Comment from :

Ricardo Neves e Castro

The story of Trump’s 1987 Moscow trip — followed by sudden access to massive loans despite a trail of bankruptcies — is more than a curiosity. It’s a pattern. A man with no discernible ideology, no political engagement, and no interest in diplomacy suddenly returns from a Soviet invitation, starts attacking NATO, and begins echoing Soviet talking points — that’s not coincidence, that’s alignment.

Three former KGB agents, speaking independently from different countries and with no visible incentives, report the same narrative: that Trump was identified, groomed, and possibly recruited as a Russian asset. The technique? Exploiting ego, offering business opportunities, feeding grandiosity — all classic KGB tactics for manipulating vulnerable personalities.

While none have produced smoking-gun evidence, the consistency of these accounts, combined with Trump’s own decades-long behavior, should raise red flags for anyone who still believes in transparency, national security, or democratic alliances.

From attacking NATO and praising autocrats, to undermining American institutions and sowing distrust in the electoral process — the pattern is crystal clear. He didn’t just sympathize with enemies of democracy; he repeatedly acted in ways that benefited them.

This isn’t conspiracy theory — it’s geopolitical logic. When a man’s actions consistently serve hostile foreign interests and damage his own country’s cohesion, we’re obligated to question why.

There is no patriotism in aiding adversaries. No leadership in destabilizing alliances. And certainly no honor in being manipulated by flattery and power games. The evidence may not come in the form of signed documents — but behavior is evidence too. And Trump’s record speaks louder than any file ever could.

Inna Alex

Everyone should read “The Sword And The Shield:  The Secret History Of The KGB”. It will open your eyes to what’s going on today and how many American Politicians, since the 1930’s were actually Russian Assets.  Very interesting read and I highly recommend it.

Borys Rachynskyi

That’s right. He was recruited by the KGB during his first visit to Czechoslovakia to visit his wife Ivanna’s parents. Czechoslovakia had a unified KGB system with the USSR under the Warsaw Pact.

Christine Moule

Not to mention the Russian oligarch who payed millions for one of his mar a lago properties, but strangely enough, never set foot in it.

Paty Rains

The Manchurian Candidate.

Stephen Bonser

Its hard to imagine any other western industrialized nation permitting a Russia asset to become a candidate for a political party. How did the CIA, NSA, FBI and other intelligence agencies fail the American people so profoundly? 

Nedder McDonnell

As a banker in the late 1990s, I was not alone in assuming that Trump was laundering money looted from the erstwhile U.S.S.R.

Terry Armstrong 

In accordance with Project 2025 the USA is now ruled covertly by Russia though the office of President Putin. In my opinion you don’t have to be Einstein to see with the combined military strength of Russia and the USA the plan is to colonise Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal etc escalating Putin’s global power objective. 

 

Reza F.

Trump has worked for Russia’s interests throughout his career; his constant criticism of NATO, his weakening of the NATO alliance through deceptive actions, under the guise of imposing tariffs, has alienated the West and America’s long-standing allies, he has eliminated or deactivated the US intelligence agencies that were tasked with monitoring and countering Russian intelligence and operational threats in the US, and he has undermined democracy in the US by breaking the law in various ways, ultimately weakening America and its global position.

PJ van den Broeke

“Based on my experience of operational work at the KGB-KNB, I can say for sure that Trump belongs to the category of perfectly recruited people,” he writes.

“I have no doubt that Russia has a compromise on the President of the United States, that for many years the Kremlin promoted Trump to the position of President of the main world power.”

As a former KGB officer and intelligence chief of Kazakhstan, Mussayev is now the third spy to have made the claim.

Vasile-Marian Danci

No direct evidence, so it’s 100% speculation, basically “bullsheet”.

You are trying to defame a man who took a bullet in the head and few seconds after stood up and said “fight, fight, fight”. 

You can’t possibly combat that with all those speculations and accumulated frustration, because that bravery cannot be faked.

And it’s pathetic you know, how do you expect USA helping Ukraine when so many of your people make bold arrogant accusations and insults about the President of the USA? And then you wonder why so many americans do not want to support Ukraine, they voted for that man, and you throw random assumptions at him.

Diplomacy doesn’t work like that.

Charles Paradis

Vasile-Marian Danci please read the Politico article posted below.

Yes, there is evidence Trump does business with Russians

By BENJAMIN ORESKES 10/09/2016

“The reason they blame Russia is they are trying to tarnish me with Russia. I know about Russia, but not about the inner workings. I have no business there and no loans from Russia. I have a great balance sheet.” — Donald Trump

Full article:

https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-presidential-debate-fact-check/2016/10/contrary-to-his-claims-there-is-evidence-that-trump-does-business-with-russians-229484