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The Case for Trump as a Russian Asset

The media won't touch this story even though the evidence is mounting.

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Ben Cohen
Feb 25, 2025
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by Ben Cohen

Last Friday, the Daily Beast published a bombshell story alleging that Donald Trump had been recruited as a KGB asset in 1987 under the codename "Krasnov." The report cited a Facebook post by former Soviet intelligence officer Alnur Mussayev.

The story was then scrubbed from the site the following day with no retraction or acknowledgment that the story had ever been published:

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