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In December 2017, the former national intelligence director James Clapper asserted that Trump was, in effect, an intelligence “asset”* serving Russian president Vladimir Putin.[7] And in 2019, the former CIA director John Brennan declared Trump to be “wholly in the pocket of Putin” and went further on Meet the Press, where he added that he had
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The significance of the Dubinina interview, Shvets said, was that it was the “origin story” for Trump’s relationship to Russia, the whole point of which was to conceal the ties between Trump and the KGB. But, according to Shvets, Dubinina inadvertently showed her hand “and exposed the fact that, as of 1986, Donald Trump was a contact of the KGB
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Trump was first approached by the Soviet Union’s KGB by 1980, was compromised by its agents repeatedly over the ensuing decades, and has behaved as a Russian asset since, most obviously after he became president.