Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset. Does it Matter? (nymag.com)
A second reason is that reporter Craig Unger got a former KGB spy to confirm on the record that Russian intelligence had been working Trump for decades. In his new book, “American Kompromat,” Unger interviewed Yuri Shvets, who told him that the KGB manipulated Trump with simple flattery. “In terms of his personality, the guy is not a complicated cookie,” he said, “his most important characteristics being low intellect coupled with hyperinflated vanity. This makes him a dream for an experienced recruiter.”
American Kompromat
HOW THE KGB CULTIVATED DONALD TRUMP, AND RELATED TALES OF SEX, GREED, POWER, AND TREACHERY
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A second reason is that reporter Craig Unger got a former KGB spy to confirm on the record that Russian intelligence had been working Trump for decades. In his new book, “American Kompromat,” Unger interviewed Yuri Shvets, who told him that the KGB manipulated Trump with simple flattery. “In terms of his personality, the guy is not a complicated cookie,” he said, “his most important characteristics being low intellect coupled with hyperinflated vanity. This makes him a dream for an experienced recruiter.”
American Kompromat
HOW THE KGB CULTIVATED DONALD TRUMP, AND RELATED TALES OF SEX, GREED, POWER, AND TREACHERY
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