There is no proof, but it would certainly explain pretty much everything about the current president if indeed he was recruited as a Russian (Soviet) asset in 1987 - as former Head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee, Alnur Mussayev claims, and given the codename "Krasnov".
Apparently, in 1987 the failing real estate developer was about one BILLION dollars in debt, went to the Soviet Union, and came back to New York and took $130,000 full page ads saying the U.S. should pull out of NATO. Really? And there was lots and lots of dirty Russian money given to him via a money laundering scheme into his properties over the years.
Then, as we know all too well, during his first presidency he claimed that he "might not" honor article 5 of the NATO treaty to use the U.S. military to defend a NATO country if they were to be attacked by Russia.
Of course, we have seen him praise and defend Putin over and over. And, indeed, it was shown decisively in the Mueller Report that Russia aided in his 2016 successful presidential victory, although there was no evidence that he actively coordinated with nor collaborated in that attempt, he just welcomed it. Therefore, there was not enough to impeach and convict him on that count.
And he extorted Ukraine early in his first presidency, only to be impeached but acquitted by his subservient Republican Senate.
Don't forget that he withdrew U.S troops from Syria and invited Putin's Russia to take over, prompting the resignation of Jim Mattis, his Defense Secretary - and Russia did all it could to help the war criminal Assad to slaughter and stay in power. And to expand Russian control of the region.
Dan Coats, hard core conservative Republican who served as Director of National Intelligence in his first term, was deeply suspicious that Putin "had something" on the president, as there was really no other explanation as to why he would just do whatever Putin demanded of him.
And now, what we see in his second term is horrifying to me. He has committed the U.S. to be an ALLY of Russia in its attempted takeover of Ukrainian territory with its illegal invasion of three years ago.
And he is attacking U.S. allies - Canada, Mexico, Panama, Denmark. He is unconstitutionally destroying government agency after government agency - notably the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the FBI, the IRS. Obliterating the Constitutional Separation of Powers.
It might not seem all that important, but he is destroying USAID, which provides charitable help around the world with food, medicine, and economic support to people and regions in dire need. There are two forms of U.S. power - hard power (military - and he is gutting the military leadership) and soft power (USAID - that shows the goodness of the U.S to the world). The total budget of USAID is less than 1% of the U.S. budget, so I do not believe for a moment that cost cutting is the reason. It is about destroying U.S. soft power.
Is he really the Russian Asset Krasnov? Or is he just a stupid, easily manipulated by Putin dumbass? It was nice to think he was only a psychopathic ignorant avaricious toxic narcissist (and he is), but now I think he actually is under the control of Putin, whose passionate goal is to destroy democracy and the rule of law in all of the world so that his corrupt regime and enormous graft and riches are not threatened. And, oh yes, so that Putin will go down in history as the greatest Russian ruler since Peter the Great as he reconquers the territory the Soviets lost in 1990.
So, why don't the Republican Congress and Senate fight him, refuse him, and say no? Well, some agree with him. Most do not but only say so in private. Maybe some are also under threat from Russia, but most certainly many of them have been given credible death threats to themselves and their families - from MAGA and maybe Russia as well. So, in addition to the threat of being primaried in the next election and losing their careers, they are under threat of death or violent harm. Just Mafioso stuff? or maybe Putin the killer threat? It is no mystery why those who oppose Putin die in obviously Putin ways - "falling off" balconies, being poisoned by openly Russian radioactive poisons - it's a blatant, "Yep it was me, Putin who ordered this" death. Over and over. In Russia, and in OTHER COUNTRIES as well.
It has been said many times that if you understand that his job is to destroy the U.S. as demanded by his boss, Putin, then everything he has done, and will do, makes total sense. He is Putin's puppet. And as long as he becomes richer and more famous, he thinks he is "a winner". Dumbass.
By the way, how on earth did the Russian KGB think that this nitwit would become president? It appears that what they did, and I imagine they still do, is find younger people that might have political ambitions, or have media persuasion, or who have possible military influence, and who are vulnerable to the many tools of Russian Kompromat (bribery, blackmail, entrapment, philosophical agreement, etc.) and recruit them hoping that some of them could help Russia in the future. They struck oil with Trump, but I would strongly suspect that there are at least a few in the MAGA leaders and influencers are also compromised, perhaps some are in the Congress or Senate.
Russia is not good at many things, but they are masters at disinformation, propaganda, lies, "alternative realities" - and blackmail, extortion, threats, force. They’ve been doing it for a century. We are seeing fascism in action. Right here in "River City".
Ugly ugly ugly.
But I believe America is waking up and smelling the stench of this putrid president and his corrupt band of MAGA shock troops, and perhaps the enemy behind them as well.
