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A Compromised President and the Country Sold to Two Donors!

Where will Trump, Russia, Adelson and Musk take America?

8 min readMar 10, 2025

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Over time several of President Trump’s statements and actions have aroused suspicion that he may have become compromised by the Russian (Soviet) intelligence services in the 1980s and that he may knowingly or unknowingly have been acting as a Soviet asset for some time, increasingly so in his second term as president. (https://medium.com/@wesodonnell/is-trump-compromised-75012fc3fc54) While such assertions are widespread, there is no definitive proof. The list of assertions to support such a claim include: (i) his 1987 advertisements attacking America’s foreign policy and its support of European allies (largely members of NATO); (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilanbenmeir/that-time-trump-spent-nearly-100000-on-an-ad-criticizing-us) (ii) numerous interactions of his closest advisors (including Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions and Michael Cohen) with Soviet officials; (iii) the fact that during his first term Trump invited Russian foreign minister Lavrov to the Oval Office to share classified information; and (iv) his meeting with Vladimir Putin (also in his first term), with no aides or official minutes but a translator who had to hand over all notes at the end of the meeting. More recently, Trump has been even more open in his support of Putin (i) by falsely claiming that Ukraine started the war with Russia; (ii) by stating that Zelensky did not want peace although…

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Hossein Askari
Hossein Askari

Written by Hossein Askari

MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Gov Mediator: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Focus on Econ-Fin, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam

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