Interesting read: Former spy reports Kremlin cultivated Trump as an asset for 5 years

[Farmgirl1961]

Well, this makes more than a few things makes much more sense. Via David Corn at Mother Jones.

In June, the former Western intelligence officer—who spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm that gathers information on Russia for corporate clients—was assigned the task of researching Trump's dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to the former spy and his associates in this American firm. This was for an opposition research project originally financed by a Republican client critical of the celebrity mogul. (Before the former spy was retained, the project's financing switched to a client allied with Democrats.) "It started off as a fairly general inquiry," says the former spook, who asks not to be identified. But when he dug into Trump, he notes, he came across troubling information indicating connections between Trump and the Russian government. According to his sources, he says, "there was an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit."

Daily Kos link:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/27/1614920/-Former-spy-reports-Kremlin-cultivated-Trump-as-an-asset-for-5-years

[niyad]

1. does this actually surprise any of us?

[angstlessk]

2. Husband says they did a face transplant on some ruskie who had his same physic?

could happen?

[triron]

4. huh??

[progressoid]

12. only on TV.

[triron]

3. wtf!

How can the Obama administration and Congress just sit on this?
What is going on????

[cstanleytech]

9. Unless a law has actually been broken what exactly do you expect Obama to do? Refuse to step aside

as President? Arrest Trump? What exactly?

[yardwork]

16. These type of comments frustrate me as well.

Overall, I see a gross naïveté and lack of understanding of how government works among so many Americans. The chance to stop this is at the voting booth. Too many people seem to think that there are do-overs. Elections matter. The president can't just "do something."

[cstanleytech]

17. Aye, sadly we are all just going to have to suck it up and deal with it and hope

by some miracle that Trump and the GOP don't fuckup the country to bad.

[TheFrenchRazor]

5. i'm shocked... not. nt

[kairos12]

6. Drumpchurian Candidate.

[mopinko]

7. no way they hung it out there the way they did

unless they had him so very firmly in their pockets.
you just dont show your methods and sources like that if there isnt a truly worthwhile prize at the end of the tunnel.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Orange is the new Red. nt

[colorado_ufo]

11. Good one

[keithbvadu2]

10. It worked. Putin got his lackey Trump in the WH.

[humbled_opinion]

13. A thorough background investigation

should make him ineligible for a security clearance.

[LaydeeBug]

14. kick. nt

[jeffreyi]

15. Whatever happened to that

Mystery server, the direct one from twinkie to russia?

[Takket]

20. Great question! Anyone know???

Amazing how these things always just go away if you are a rethug.

[Takket]

21. Snopes shoots it down

http://www.snopes.com/trump-server-tied-to-russian-bank/

[triron]

18. kick for visibility

[AmericanActivist]

19. #TreasonousTrump nm

[Hekate]

22. Benedict Donald, the useful idiot

[TheFrenchRazor]

23. Trump is Putin's MiniMe. it is so obvious. nt