Vladimir Putin personally authorized a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to leaked Kremlin documents. theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
The key meeting took place on 1/22/16, with Putin, his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present.
They agreed a Trump WH would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position.
There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected – the document says – from Trump’s earlier “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory”.
There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”.
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“Had it been another four years of Trump, Erik would probably be closing the deal,” says Novikov.
The docs describe a series of ventures that would give Prince a pivotal role in Ukraine’s military industry and its ongoing conflict with Russia. time.com/6076035/erik-p…
But the Ukrainians had serious concerns about working with Prince, according to three people involved in the negotiations. Prince’s choice of allies in Kyiv—two men with ties to Russia—raised particular alarm.
Ukraine announces sanctions on businessman Dmytro Firtash for selling titanium products that allegedly end up being used by Russian military enterprises.
The council also announced sanctions against businessman Pavel Fuks. #1MDB
The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months (Apr/July 2017) of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Background: In early August 2017 — days after the time period covered by the search of The Post reporters’ phone records — Sessions held a news conference to announce an intensified effort to hunt and prosecute leakers in government.
📌Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Kislyak the Russian ambassador, (which he failed to disclose), U.S. intelligence intercepts show
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