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Why Trump May be Worse than a Russian Asset and Committed to Destroying America [1]

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Date: 2025-01-17

Many of us here at KOS believe that Trump is primarily motivated by the thirst for power, revenge against enemies who defied him and his limitless personal greed. His quest to stay our of jail removed, that is no longer a force motivating him.

Then there’s the likely possibility that his warped and declining brain cells are also making him increasingly irrational and are behind his recent ravings. While all of that might indeed be factual and is supported by his own deeds and words, there’s another possibility that some of his rantings and behaviors tend to suggest. Which is that Trump has been likely compromised into becoming some type of Russian asset, long ago entrapped to help serve their interests, either knowingly or unknowingly.

The Enemy Within

Trump latest appointments make The Three Stooges look like geniuses.

Trump has without a doubt been consistently been pro-Russian in terms of undermining our key NATO Alliance. He is now about to be in a position not to have to rely on traditional and relatively rational and competent Republican advisors, and is appointing incompetent stooges that will obey every irrational or criminal order he gives them. His recently announced tariff trade policies would be a disaster for both the U.S. and European economies.

His incompetent, but subservient appointees to Dept of Defense and Homeland Security would greatly weaken us militarily in relation to Russia and China. He is already reportedly planning to take on the military and replace most of the generals with his own appointments and charge any general loyal to the Democrats with treason.

Is the latter behavior to destroy America consistent with the corrupt and greedy Trump we’ve come to know, or has Russia some sort of more direct influence or control over him. Is it pay back time For the debt Trump owes to Putin’s oligarchs.

The Steele Report is Partly Discredited, But . . .

Christopher Steele

The Steele Report, which broke shortly before the 2016 election of Hillary Clinton vs. Trump, suggested the latter was actually compromised by sexual favors provided by Russia while in Moscow. The report has been harshly criticized for it questionable veracity and unreliable here-say evidence which were featured in his Report and revelations that it may have been financed by Democratic Party funds.

Even if we dismiss this report, there is little doubt that Russia backed Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns in a number of ways and worked with Republican campaign sources.

Follow the Money

More important, it’s hardly a secret that there are money ties and loans between the Russian mafia, Russian oligarchs and Trump, which were documented by Craig Unger in his book, House of Trump. These financial connections are not imaginary and a matter of public record, go back decades and provide a more credible motivation for Trump’s “pro-Russian sentiments” now that he is president.

“In truth Trump was all but finished as a major real-estate developer, in the eyes of many in the business, and that’s because the U.S. banking industry was pretty much finished with him. By the early 1990s he had burned through his portion of his father Fred’s fortune with a series of reckless business decisions. Two of his businesses had declared bankruptcy, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City and the Plaza Hotel in New York, and the money pit that was the Trump Shuttle went out of business in 1992. “

Source: Foreign Policy article by Craig Unger

Trump’s Repeated Bankruptcies

Six times in the crapper.

Trump has filed for bankruptcy a total of six times and hit rock bottom in the early 90s. As a result of his bad credit, U.S. banks would no no longer bail him out. This fact is at the heart, I suggest, of why Trump may indeed be compromised by Russian money. While Vladimir Putin is one of the wealthiest oligarchs in Russia, it likely wasn’t Putin’s money that was loaned to Trump. But no other Russian oligarchs would have bailed out Trump without Putin’s permission, involvement and encouragement.

The Ultimate Loser

Since Trump is an established loser of mega money and failed businesses, why did these oligarchs loan him big money and how would Trump be able to pay them pack except if Putin himself was involved and gave them the go ahead? Trump’s parroting of Moscow’s line makes this act of treason by Trump at least as bad and maybe even worse that his 2021 coup.

In what ways would Trump have to pay them back?? We shall soon see, I’m afraid.[]

Recommended Reading: A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset

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