Author Craig Unger has something he would like you to know, and he’s got it in a new book that’s coming out next week entitled House of Trump, House of Putin; the Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia.
Unger was the source of much of the now-verified information about the massive investments made by Saudi Arabia in the United States that were referenced extensively in the film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” by Oscar-winning director Michael Moore. Unger’s foreign contacts make him uniquely qualified to know details that even some experts on Russia — Christopher Steele, for example — may not know about Donald Trump’s interactions with the former Soviet republic.
In the book, Unger claims that Trump is very likely to have been compromised on a trip to Moscow, but perhaps even before his infamous trip for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013, when much of the conspiracy that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leading the investigation into began.
Unger argues that Trump would actually have been primed for blackmail more than three decades ago, in 1987, when he made his first trip to the Russian capital. In fact, in 1987 it was still the Soviet Union, and the KGB was still the nation’s spy agency, equivalent to our CIA. The top counterintelligence official from the KGB at that time, Oleg Kalugin, is the source for the claims made in Unger’s book.
Kalugin informs us that much of what has been alleged in the Steele Dossier would actually have already happened, all those years ago: Trump would have been lured with prostitutes, then filmed by Russian agents. The technique, called Kompromat, was the primary source of Russian intelligence derived through blackmail for the entirety of the KGB’s existence.
The claims are not all that far-fetched — Trump has a well-documented history with Russian criminals and mobsters all the way back to his father’s business dealings in the 70’s as well as Trump’s own real estate ventures in the early 80’s.
If the existence of kompromat from so many years ago explains why Trump has been so soft on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election — or his immediate willingness to accept help from Russia in defeating his opponent, as he just publicly admitted only days ago — then maybe Robert Mueller’s investigation should stretch back just a little further.
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