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From a year ago:
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house|
The Guardian had access to some Russian documents describing the intense effort to bring about the election of DJT in 2016.
Excerpt:
The report No 32-04 vd is classified as secret. It says Trump is the most promising candidate from the Kremlins point of view. The word in Russian is perspektivny.
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.
There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected the document says from Trumps earlier non-official visits to Russian Federation territory.
The paper refers to certain events that happened during Trumps trips to Moscow. Security council members are invited to find details in appendix five, at paragraph five, the document states. It is unclear what the appendix contains.
It is acutely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate his [Trumps] election to the post of US president, the paper says.
This would help bring about Russias favoured theoretical political scenario. A Trump win will definitely lead to the destabilisation of the USs sociopolitical system and see hidden discontent burst into the open, it predicts.
The Kremlin summit
There is no doubt that the meeting in January 2016 took place and that it was convened inside the Kremlin.
An official photo of the occasion shows Putin at the head of the table, seated beneath a Russian Federation flag and a two-headed golden eagle. Russias then prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, attended, together with the veteran foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
Also present were Sergei Shoigu, the defence minister in charge of the GRU, Russias military intelligence agency; Mikhail Fradkov, the then chief of Russias SVR foreign intelligence service; and Alexander Bortnikov, the boss of the FSB spy agency.Nikolai Patrushev, the FSBs former director, attended too as security council secretary.
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CanonRay
(14,107 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Sad, so sad.
Irish_Dem
(47,170 posts)It was like taking candy from a baby.
iemanja
(53,035 posts)His election did lead to destabilization of America.