DT may not be Krasnov, but useful willing individual might be more like it. DT's body language when he is with Putin is submissive. In Helsinki not only was his body language submissive so was his response to a question siding with the Russian version of events. Putin and FSB must have the goods on him on something too big for him to truly push back against them.
For me, the one thing I am certain about is that DT will do absolutely anything, and I mean anything and everything to win. There is no bridge too far for him to demolish for him to win. He is a petulant child and from the looks of it, he is being used by the Yarvinite techno-fascists to destroy the existing architecture of our government so they can build a new form of government installing themselves as the ruling class.
71 days to destroy what took hundreds of years to build. DT is no builder. He is a malevolent wannabe strongman currently running a demolition company. Busy destroying what others have built because he is too flawed of an individual to acknowledge greatness in others, unless of course, it's his buddy Vlad, Orban, Xi, and pen pal Kim.
He is not planning for another election to take place. There may be an election, but you can bet it will be rigged, this time for real. I think DT envisions himself in a patrimonial role where all things flow from him, while the Yarvinites are looking to retire DT and install their silicone golden boy, JD Vance as the figurehead of their new world.
Agreed on the no more fair and free elections. He’s dismantling security in tech systems as we all fret over our 401ks. He is going to say they are hacked and just ignore any results. He’s not leaving peacefully for sure
There is the real possibility that your 2024 election was rigged. Particularly when the big lie of 2020 is factored in. To me it seems the big lie was a long game where he already had intentions of rigging the next election in his favour with those who do have a moral compass hesitant to think that it could or would ever happen. Every US state should conduct a hand count to satisfy themselves that the outcome was legitimate.
I believe they did TRY to remove a convicted felon from running. Your constitution needs an urgent update to ensure only people of good character are allowed to run. Oh wait, that would mean that 95% of your representatives and senators would be ineligible. You guys want to be the “leaders of the free world”, then your representatives should be of a character that the rest of us on the planet want to follow. As it is right now, the USA is the laughing stock of the world. We don’t get your partisan propaganda that you swallow as legitimate news. The world gets much more neutral reporting than you do. Roughly 1 billion people in westernised countries do not support this administration. Not because we want to or have ever taken advantage of the US (as Trump claims) but because we can see from the outside looking in what is happening to your country. For what it’s worth, Australia has stood shoulder to shoulder with the US. We’ve joined you in wars when we perhaps shouldn’t have. We host your critical national security assets (e.g. Pine Gap) without any cost to the US. We don’t tariff the US contrary to what Trump and that hollow man Navarro says. Yet YOU, America tariffed a friend and ally that has always had your back in everything. That is not how a friend acts towards someone who has at great cost to themselves supported you. You can see by the outcome of the Canadian election, the “fuck off” message from Denmark and a myriad of other counties pushing back on the US that this administration is unworthy of the position it holds and is very much out of favour globally.
I’m tired of listening to and reading the “whataboutisms” that permeate the Trump side of the issue. You will never get anywhere if you constantly look to the past to justify the whole scale dismantling of your country. I urge you to stop and think, to reengineer your thinking away from looking at only one side of this before it’s too late. Whilst we will sympathise with you all when your country goes belly up, don’t be surprised when we don’t offer support to those who facilitated and enabled this madman you call a presidents
The resolution of the last possible reasonable doubt (the standard of proof appropriate to this criminal issue) is the fact that Trump has not omitted from his strategy and actions a single element of what is necessary to destroy the power of the United States to stand as the stabilizing force of the modern world, something that no foreign enemy was able to do until having an inside agent.
No matter how this all plays out, the chances of strong alliances in the future are very low. Unfortunately the USA has (through the actions and outright misinformation of DJT) now made every country wary of alliances with the USA. That supreme level of trust we all had in America has been shattered. Like any relationship, be it personal, economic or cooperative, regaining the full trust of other countries will not be an easy process. Where we once saw the USA as leader and trusted custodian of the tenets of freedom and liberty, we now see the USA as unstable, corrupt and chaotic. DJT imposed a 10% tariff on Australian goods, stating clearly that it was a reciprocal tariff. Australia does not tariff American goods. What we do is maintain strict biosecurity to ensure our country, its flora and fauna remain safe from disease. The importation of any meat or vegetable matter from overseas must meet our minimum standards and unfortunately the USA like many other countries are not always able to meet those standards and as such we do not buy those products if they don’t. The imposition of an unjustified 10% tariff is not the action of a friend or ally. We won’t retaliate and impose a reciprocal tariff. We are not that kind of nation. We will just suck it up and ride out this storm. Our beef (which DJT was targeting) is of such good quality it is in demand all over the world. We will find other markets, it’s not the be all and end all if we don’t sell our beef to the USA to be included in the Big Mac patties that DJT is said to enjoy.
Excellent piece. I always thought the main reason Trump couldn't be a Russian asset was that it was so obvious that he was. Surely, if Russia really wanted him to be serious, they would have told him to be more subtle? Now I suspect even Russia has been surprised by how much he has got away with. It seems he could jump on the White House roof waving a Russian flag and shouting "I am a Russian agent" and his supporters would just say "Yeah? Whatever. How much are eggs today?" (I'm not an American, btw, just one of the rest of the world that's baffled.
Compelling account. The really scary part for me is that even if it is proved that Trump is Krasnov, most of his voters and Repubs in Congress wouldn't care. After all, other than a recorded phone call with Putin or compromising video, all the other facts about Trump's support for Putin are already public knowledge. Even if he isn't an actual Russian agent, he acts on their behalf in ways that would get anyother president in real trouble and perhaps impeached. With Teflon Don, nothing sticks. How did we get here?
Great article, thank you! My opinion is if it looks like a duck…then it is Donald. Trump is definitely a Russian asset. If you go back to the 1980 - 1990, his construction building days in NYC, it was the Russians who lent him the money needed for these projects. Trump was bankrupt and needed money to build casinos, apt buildings, etc. Everyone in NYC knows Trump has been working for Moscow for decades it just now the rest of the Country is seeing it.
Hi Jane, that is interesting we have the same reference. Nice article. Well done!
Trump’s connection to the Russians was public knowledge in NYC back in those days from Wall Street to the clubs at Studio 54. When non-New Yorkers ask me about Trump, I always suggest two books. The first is Mary Trump’s book about Donald and the second is “Dark Towers” You read those two books and you will know who Donald Trump really is.
I just wish people would wake up already and stop this nightmare.
@Sarah Kendzior wrote a book, “Hiding in Plain Sight” that is also a must read re: Inmate #P01135809 and she’s got the footnotes to back up everything she wrote.
Trump has a long association with Putin and has laundered a lot of Russian money. He's in deep wth that mob. Trump has few friends, but he treats putin like a pal. Most world leaders think Trump is a joke, so it is not surprising he's attached himself to another criminal. Putin doesn't have pals (sorry trump, you've been played), only assets and enemies. Trump is too dumb to be an agent, but his greed and his vanity has served putin well.
I wonder, now that trump believes he's the untouchable, all powerful grand poohbah (mob boss) of the world, king of EVERYONE on the planet, where does putin fit in? Trump now wields more power than putin, would he not abuse it? It is noticeable that Russia is spared from the tariffs. It might just come down to kompromat (likely epstein tapes).
The 2025 christo-fascists are putin lovers so they have certainly had a hand in covertly directing some of the destruction. It wouldn't surprise me if they (+putin) are now anxious for trump to croak....they might even push that plan along if he lingers beyond his usefulness (they are a cruel bunch of psychopaths/nazis). Nobody is thinking or talking about what happens when JD takes the throne. Yikes.
I believed that JD, like trump, is likely a puppet but to different masters with their own nefarious agenda. Lets face it, JD is not a mastermind nor is he leadership material. He tries to project a powerful sort of bully persona but every time he opens his mouth he offends more people than not, he's become a joke. He can't read a room, he can't read people and he's a bad liar. Dull witted, unpleasant, bad character - all liabilities in the role of Prez. The slick rat 2025ers might drive JD into the closet (that's where he actually belongs). As to the cast of characters currently populating the cabinet? They'll likely stay on, dumb compliant fools are more useful than people who actually have thought and brains.
I suspect there is more right than wrong in your theory. At least all the observations are true, and there has to be something going on for him to be so secretive. What's most alarming, is that all his sycophants in Congress would be having conniptions if Biden or Harris had done any one of the things you note. Where there's smoke, there's usually a fire underneath.
I can’t believe you “can’t believe you’re writing this”.
It’s common, when there is a theory of horrendous significance, to insist on “smoking gun” proof. Circumstantial evidence supposedly is not enough to convict on a thought or deed, or multiple deeds, that can fall into the realm of “conspiracy theory”, even with unconscionable damage actually in plain sight. But, a thousand points of consistent incriminating circumstantial evidence of intentional destruction (Ukraine lives lost, democratic cornerstone principles shredded and ignored, dedicated allies threatened while Orban and Putin shown great respect) all confirming a strong traitorous leaning behavior cannot be ignored !!
Maybe trump does not actually have the name “Krasnov”. Maybe Putin does not have genuine blackmail material on our dear leader. So what? ALL his behavior, policies and directives would be the same as if those unprovable items were somehow proven. What little doubts remain are not relevant in the conclusions we must draw and act on.
Probably never for most of them because it’s too psychologically difficult to admit to believing in something that is wrong/flawed for people (I left Mormonism, so I know all about this) but we have too much work to do to think about them now. They’ll either get it on their own or they never will.
did you read Craig Unger's Krompromat book? The circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. Also Bannon got tied up into the Russia mafia drug dealing stuff also I think - Daniel Hopsicker's Florida CIA reporting has great details. In fact I will order Hopsicker's final book on this - unfortunately he didn't survive the finishing of his final book "Gangster Planet." thanks
I have long had the same suspicions but without this evidence. Our tragedy is that his followers don’t care anymore. They think he will save them from us, the liberals, the young women who refuse to bear their children, the latest immigrants, the original inhabitants who continue to fight for their lands and rights, the children who want to learn, the people who don’t go to their churches or believe in their version of Christianity. The list goes on…..
I agree with almost everything except Ukraine left against the wall. More weapons will arrive this year from the US than last year, and Europe is rallying to send more themselves than they did last year. Russia may have control over Trump or may have figured out how to influence him, but he is not a dictator, our congress makes laws and funds efforts. And Putin’s goal of dividing Europe and America seems to have back-fired. A stronger and motivated Europe is more dangerous to him than the happy to let America do all the defense investment for 75 years Europe that existed before Trump was elected.
The Wikipedia article about Peter Krasnov is worth reading (you'll see why they code-named him Krasnov), as is Greg Olear's recent Substack article about Trump's connections with the Mafia and the Russian Mob. If it flies like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
DT may not be Krasnov, but useful willing individual might be more like it. DT's body language when he is with Putin is submissive. In Helsinki not only was his body language submissive so was his response to a question siding with the Russian version of events. Putin and FSB must have the goods on him on something too big for him to truly push back against them.
For me, the one thing I am certain about is that DT will do absolutely anything, and I mean anything and everything to win. There is no bridge too far for him to demolish for him to win. He is a petulant child and from the looks of it, he is being used by the Yarvinite techno-fascists to destroy the existing architecture of our government so they can build a new form of government installing themselves as the ruling class.
71 days to destroy what took hundreds of years to build. DT is no builder. He is a malevolent wannabe strongman currently running a demolition company. Busy destroying what others have built because he is too flawed of an individual to acknowledge greatness in others, unless of course, it's his buddy Vlad, Orban, Xi, and pen pal Kim.
He is not planning for another election to take place. There may be an election, but you can bet it will be rigged, this time for real. I think DT envisions himself in a patrimonial role where all things flow from him, while the Yarvinites are looking to retire DT and install their silicone golden boy, JD Vance as the figurehead of their new world.
Agreed on the no more fair and free elections. He’s dismantling security in tech systems as we all fret over our 401ks. He is going to say they are hacked and just ignore any results. He’s not leaving peacefully for sure
There is the real possibility that your 2024 election was rigged. Particularly when the big lie of 2020 is factored in. To me it seems the big lie was a long game where he already had intentions of rigging the next election in his favour with those who do have a moral compass hesitant to think that it could or would ever happen. Every US state should conduct a hand count to satisfy themselves that the outcome was legitimate.
Didn’t the democrats try to rig the 2024 election? When they removed him from the ballot and then replaced the candidate?
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Yes. I think you're 10 of 10 on this. Terrifying.
I believe they did TRY to remove a convicted felon from running. Your constitution needs an urgent update to ensure only people of good character are allowed to run. Oh wait, that would mean that 95% of your representatives and senators would be ineligible. You guys want to be the “leaders of the free world”, then your representatives should be of a character that the rest of us on the planet want to follow. As it is right now, the USA is the laughing stock of the world. We don’t get your partisan propaganda that you swallow as legitimate news. The world gets much more neutral reporting than you do. Roughly 1 billion people in westernised countries do not support this administration. Not because we want to or have ever taken advantage of the US (as Trump claims) but because we can see from the outside looking in what is happening to your country. For what it’s worth, Australia has stood shoulder to shoulder with the US. We’ve joined you in wars when we perhaps shouldn’t have. We host your critical national security assets (e.g. Pine Gap) without any cost to the US. We don’t tariff the US contrary to what Trump and that hollow man Navarro says. Yet YOU, America tariffed a friend and ally that has always had your back in everything. That is not how a friend acts towards someone who has at great cost to themselves supported you. You can see by the outcome of the Canadian election, the “fuck off” message from Denmark and a myriad of other counties pushing back on the US that this administration is unworthy of the position it holds and is very much out of favour globally.
I’m tired of listening to and reading the “whataboutisms” that permeate the Trump side of the issue. You will never get anywhere if you constantly look to the past to justify the whole scale dismantling of your country. I urge you to stop and think, to reengineer your thinking away from looking at only one side of this before it’s too late. Whilst we will sympathise with you all when your country goes belly up, don’t be surprised when we don’t offer support to those who facilitated and enabled this madman you call a presidents
The resolution of the last possible reasonable doubt (the standard of proof appropriate to this criminal issue) is the fact that Trump has not omitted from his strategy and actions a single element of what is necessary to destroy the power of the United States to stand as the stabilizing force of the modern world, something that no foreign enemy was able to do until having an inside agent.
And not a moment too soon. Long overdue for the US/Israeli experiment to come to a conclusion.
No matter how this all plays out, the chances of strong alliances in the future are very low. Unfortunately the USA has (through the actions and outright misinformation of DJT) now made every country wary of alliances with the USA. That supreme level of trust we all had in America has been shattered. Like any relationship, be it personal, economic or cooperative, regaining the full trust of other countries will not be an easy process. Where we once saw the USA as leader and trusted custodian of the tenets of freedom and liberty, we now see the USA as unstable, corrupt and chaotic. DJT imposed a 10% tariff on Australian goods, stating clearly that it was a reciprocal tariff. Australia does not tariff American goods. What we do is maintain strict biosecurity to ensure our country, its flora and fauna remain safe from disease. The importation of any meat or vegetable matter from overseas must meet our minimum standards and unfortunately the USA like many other countries are not always able to meet those standards and as such we do not buy those products if they don’t. The imposition of an unjustified 10% tariff is not the action of a friend or ally. We won’t retaliate and impose a reciprocal tariff. We are not that kind of nation. We will just suck it up and ride out this storm. Our beef (which DJT was targeting) is of such good quality it is in demand all over the world. We will find other markets, it’s not the be all and end all if we don’t sell our beef to the USA to be included in the Big Mac patties that DJT is said to enjoy.
Excellent piece. I always thought the main reason Trump couldn't be a Russian asset was that it was so obvious that he was. Surely, if Russia really wanted him to be serious, they would have told him to be more subtle? Now I suspect even Russia has been surprised by how much he has got away with. It seems he could jump on the White House roof waving a Russian flag and shouting "I am a Russian agent" and his supporters would just say "Yeah? Whatever. How much are eggs today?" (I'm not an American, btw, just one of the rest of the world that's baffled.
Compelling account. The really scary part for me is that even if it is proved that Trump is Krasnov, most of his voters and Repubs in Congress wouldn't care. After all, other than a recorded phone call with Putin or compromising video, all the other facts about Trump's support for Putin are already public knowledge. Even if he isn't an actual Russian agent, he acts on their behalf in ways that would get anyother president in real trouble and perhaps impeached. With Teflon Don, nothing sticks. How did we get here?
Dark underground evil at play
Great article, thank you! My opinion is if it looks like a duck…then it is Donald. Trump is definitely a Russian asset. If you go back to the 1980 - 1990, his construction building days in NYC, it was the Russians who lent him the money needed for these projects. Trump was bankrupt and needed money to build casinos, apt buildings, etc. Everyone in NYC knows Trump has been working for Moscow for decades it just now the rest of the Country is seeing it.
Funny you would make the Duck reference and talk about his early days in the same comment. I wrote about this in this article:
https://morningtruth.substack.com/p/donald-risk-unveiling-trumps-financial
Hi Jane, that is interesting we have the same reference. Nice article. Well done!
Trump’s connection to the Russians was public knowledge in NYC back in those days from Wall Street to the clubs at Studio 54. When non-New Yorkers ask me about Trump, I always suggest two books. The first is Mary Trump’s book about Donald and the second is “Dark Towers” You read those two books and you will know who Donald Trump really is.
I just wish people would wake up already and stop this nightmare.
Thank you. I will check them out.
@Sarah Kendzior wrote a book, “Hiding in Plain Sight” that is also a must read re: Inmate #P01135809 and she’s got the footnotes to back up everything she wrote.
Russia basically built his golf courses. $$$. Then sold inflated “memberships”
I hate to be a fool, but I agree. I guess it depends on the definition of Asset. He is certainly an enabler and, in that way at least, he assists!
Trump has a long association with Putin and has laundered a lot of Russian money. He's in deep wth that mob. Trump has few friends, but he treats putin like a pal. Most world leaders think Trump is a joke, so it is not surprising he's attached himself to another criminal. Putin doesn't have pals (sorry trump, you've been played), only assets and enemies. Trump is too dumb to be an agent, but his greed and his vanity has served putin well.
I wonder, now that trump believes he's the untouchable, all powerful grand poohbah (mob boss) of the world, king of EVERYONE on the planet, where does putin fit in? Trump now wields more power than putin, would he not abuse it? It is noticeable that Russia is spared from the tariffs. It might just come down to kompromat (likely epstein tapes).
The 2025 christo-fascists are putin lovers so they have certainly had a hand in covertly directing some of the destruction. It wouldn't surprise me if they (+putin) are now anxious for trump to croak....they might even push that plan along if he lingers beyond his usefulness (they are a cruel bunch of psychopaths/nazis). Nobody is thinking or talking about what happens when JD takes the throne. Yikes.
Maybe Ms. T and her daddy is the connection
I believed that JD, like trump, is likely a puppet but to different masters with their own nefarious agenda. Lets face it, JD is not a mastermind nor is he leadership material. He tries to project a powerful sort of bully persona but every time he opens his mouth he offends more people than not, he's become a joke. He can't read a room, he can't read people and he's a bad liar. Dull witted, unpleasant, bad character - all liabilities in the role of Prez. The slick rat 2025ers might drive JD into the closet (that's where he actually belongs). As to the cast of characters currently populating the cabinet? They'll likely stay on, dumb compliant fools are more useful than people who actually have thought and brains.
He's a chameleon.
https://morningtruth.substack.com/p/jd-vances-transformation-from-trump
I suspect there is more right than wrong in your theory. At least all the observations are true, and there has to be something going on for him to be so secretive. What's most alarming, is that all his sycophants in Congress would be having conniptions if Biden or Harris had done any one of the things you note. Where there's smoke, there's usually a fire underneath.
I can’t believe you “can’t believe you’re writing this”.
It’s common, when there is a theory of horrendous significance, to insist on “smoking gun” proof. Circumstantial evidence supposedly is not enough to convict on a thought or deed, or multiple deeds, that can fall into the realm of “conspiracy theory”, even with unconscionable damage actually in plain sight. But, a thousand points of consistent incriminating circumstantial evidence of intentional destruction (Ukraine lives lost, democratic cornerstone principles shredded and ignored, dedicated allies threatened while Orban and Putin shown great respect) all confirming a strong traitorous leaning behavior cannot be ignored !!
Maybe trump does not actually have the name “Krasnov”. Maybe Putin does not have genuine blackmail material on our dear leader. So what? ALL his behavior, policies and directives would be the same as if those unprovable items were somehow proven. What little doubts remain are not relevant in the conclusions we must draw and act on.
I wonder when Trump’s supporters are going to realize “Wait! That’s sabotage. What did we do!?”
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-07-25/card/dow-futures-sink-more-than-1-500-points-OQDqBblR3UT9n4FcGajR
Probably never for most of them because it’s too psychologically difficult to admit to believing in something that is wrong/flawed for people (I left Mormonism, so I know all about this) but we have too much work to do to think about them now. They’ll either get it on their own or they never will.
100%
Your checklist of how to tank America and the EU for Putin was frightening. And apparently highly accurate.
did you read Craig Unger's Krompromat book? The circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. Also Bannon got tied up into the Russia mafia drug dealing stuff also I think - Daniel Hopsicker's Florida CIA reporting has great details. In fact I will order Hopsicker's final book on this - unfortunately he didn't survive the finishing of his final book "Gangster Planet." thanks
On my list. Thank you!
Jane! Jane!! Jane!!!!!!
You think? I wont write an essay for you explaining why your are correct.
Wait and Watch for the release of the 350 Billion Frozen Russian Assets.
I have long had the same suspicions but without this evidence. Our tragedy is that his followers don’t care anymore. They think he will save them from us, the liberals, the young women who refuse to bear their children, the latest immigrants, the original inhabitants who continue to fight for their lands and rights, the children who want to learn, the people who don’t go to their churches or believe in their version of Christianity. The list goes on…..
I agree with almost everything except Ukraine left against the wall. More weapons will arrive this year from the US than last year, and Europe is rallying to send more themselves than they did last year. Russia may have control over Trump or may have figured out how to influence him, but he is not a dictator, our congress makes laws and funds efforts. And Putin’s goal of dividing Europe and America seems to have back-fired. A stronger and motivated Europe is more dangerous to him than the happy to let America do all the defense investment for 75 years Europe that existed before Trump was elected.
I’ve been thinking lately of the original 1962 movie The Manchurian Candidate…
The Wikipedia article about Peter Krasnov is worth reading (you'll see why they code-named him Krasnov), as is Greg Olear's recent Substack article about Trump's connections with the Mafia and the Russian Mob. If it flies like a duck, and quacks like a duck...