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Musk's AI "Grok" calculates Trump is 75-85% likely a Putin/Russian asset [1]
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Date: 2025-03-09
We are watching a slow but deepening willingness forming in the American public discourse to face up to the fact that the President of the United States is in the service of the United States’s most dedicated national adversary… the necessary first step in doing something about it.
Now, further progress has been made in that direction with some unlikely help.
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As an experiment, Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini asked Elon Musk’s AI “Grok”, which is built into X and claims to be “maximally truthseeking”, what the chances are that President Donald Trump is a Putin-compromised Russian asset — and got the answer “75-85%”, leaning on the high end.
Here’s the prompt (so you paid Grok users can try it yourselves and see if ol’ Leon has rushed to brainwash the AI yet:)
What is the likelihood from 1-100 that Trump is a Putin-compromised asset? Use all publicly available information from 1980 on and his failure to ever say anything negative about Putin but has no issue attacking allies.
After a thorough, probably minutes-long search through info sources revealing, in Grok’s own words, “a complex web of financial ties, personal interactions, political behavior, and circumstantial evidence,” — much of which information will be familiar to regular Daily Kos readers — the chatbot wrote:
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, as Trump faced bankruptcies, he increasingly relied on funding from sources tied to Russia and former Soviet states. His sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, made statements reinforcing this: Donald Jr. in 2008 said, ‘Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,’ and Eric in 2014 claimed, ‘We have all the funding we need out of Russia. […] Leaked Kremlin documents reported by The Guardian in 2021 suggest Putin personally approved a 2016 operation to back Trump, viewing him as ‘mentally unstable’ and exploitable, with potential compromising material from past Moscow visits. […] Weighing this, the financial ties (decades-long, opaque, and substantial), intelligence suggesting Russian intent, and Trump’s unwavering refusal to criticize Putin despite attacking allies tilt the scale.
And concluded:
Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable… Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties.
There you have it. The AI scores full points in my book, or at least did. Kudos to EJ Montini as well.
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