Trump has been for at least a decade the greatest threat to the republic. He wouldn’t know communism, much less Marxism if they came up and bit him on the ass. Aside from an ignorance of Democratic Socialism, why then would he have one of its elected officials in the Oval Office. He can’t be that mercenary (sic)? And unlike his meeting during the first term with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, Trump didn’t give up classified information.
Every time he deflects using a Red Scare tactic, he draws attention from/to his decades of support for Russian oligarchies, based on his original role as a Soviet KGB asset.
Trumpists and their anachronistic anti-communist lies have been infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government.
Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the 1980s. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006.
Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB.
Three years later Trump opened his first big property development, the Grand Hyatt New York hotel near Grand Central station. Trump bought 200 television sets for the hotel from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue.
According to Shvets, Joy-Lud was controlled by the KGB and Kislin worked as a so-called “spotter agent” who identified Trump, a young businessman on the rise, as a potential asset. Kislin denies that he had a relationship with the KGB.
Then, in 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
Narcissists quickly accuse someone else of the same or similar behavior The accused person becomes defensive, shifting focus from the narcissist’s actions By redirecting responsibility, narcissists avoid accountability and maintain their perceived perfection.
Ever the narcissist, Trump recycles the Red Scare, the fear of which propagandized some imaginary takeover which actually has been achieved by GOPhascists.
Trump’s pathology follows the lessons of Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn’s friendship with Trump includes a pivotal role in the Red Scare, from McCarthy hearings to Cold War legal battles and anti-communist power plays.
Trumpism has Kowtowed to Russia for over a decade. Why? Russia has deep pockets, how else could it get clueless GOP politicians to visit Russia on July 4th.
On June 15, 2016, Kevin McCarthy told his fellow Republicans, “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” (Former Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher earned a reputation as one of Russia’s biggest congressional supporters.) McCarthy added at the time, “Swear to God.”
Choose One sign with US and Russian flags outside of Rohrabacher Campaign HeadquartersFreewayblogger
The term Red Scare is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States. The First Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution, and political radicalism that followed revolutionary socialist movements in Germany and Russia during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government.
A third Red Scare should include China, except that Trump does a lot of business there. He can’t even attack Albania, despite their hatred of Jared and Ivanka.
#socialism isn’t a bad word. #capitalism and #Billionaire are bad words. Socialist countries that always rank higher than the US in terms of happiness, prosperity, education and healthcare include: #denmark, #norway, #canada and more…
— Sean M (@artistseanm.bsky.social) 2025-12-01T14:45:39.154Z
An image authentically showed a graph in an American government high school textbook that depicted U.S. President Donald Trump as being ideologically similar to Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hitler-graph-textbook
“Trump is America’s Hitler”
– JD Vance
A growing body of scholarship, journalistic commentary and opinion pieces finds patterns in Donald Trump’s political relationship with his most loyal followers that resemble classic features of a cult of personality—unquestioning loyalty, ritualized leader worship, and a siege mentality.
https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/evidence-trump-cult-of-personality-leader-f80eaa
In a speech on Friday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York emphasized the diversity of the U.S. as he criticized those who would deprive immigrants of freedom and aspects of American history, from slavery to discrimination to worker exploitation.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-07-03T21:05:04.073210Z
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