Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: The U.S. and the world should stand up to Donald Trump with confidence and not let him get away with his constant lies and slander

Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: The U.S. and the world should stand up to Donald Trump with confidence and not let him get away with his constant lies and slander. I seriously wonder how we will survive the four very long years of his presidency without all of us feeling like we are in a madhouse. We are not his hostages. I also wonder how many red lines an American president can cross without risking losing his office. What does this style of government have to do with democracy? Raising tariffs will only increase consumer prices and the inflation rate in the U.S. He wants Canada, the Panama Canal, Greenland and the natural resources of Ukraine. The world seems to be a self-service store for him. He is encouraging the dictators of this world to attack other countries and take over their territories. This is supposed to be the leader of the free world? Has Donald Trump really won a second presidential election? Really? I still can't believe it!!!!!!--------------------------- SWEET NEW BALLAD - Love Me Please ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frankfurter Rundschau Donald Trump: Product of Putin's secret service? Ex-agent spills the beans Tadhg Nagel • 5 hours • 3 minutes reading time Love from Moscow Trump and Russia: a connection that is once again causing a stir. An ex-secret service agent is making explosive allegations. Not the first of its kind. Moscow/Washington, D.C. - A former Soviet secret service agent has claimed that US President Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987. Since then he has been codenamed "Krasnov". It is not the first time that such connections between Trump and Russia have been claimed. In a Facebook post on Thursday (February 21), former Kazakh secret service chief Alnur Mussayev made an explosive claim: He worked in the 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, which was responsible for supporting counter-espionage in the economy. One of their main goals was the "recruitment of businessmen from capitalist countries". As part of these efforts, "in 1987 our directorate recruited Donald Trump, a 40-year-old American businessman, under the pseudonym Krasnov". Ex-KGB agent reveals: Trump is said to have been recruited in 1987 under the code name "Krasnov" But that's not all. "Donald Trump has fallen into the FSB's net and is swallowing the bait deeper and deeper. This is confirmed by numerous indirect facts published in the media," writes Mussayev further down. Based on his "operational work at the KGB-KNB" he can "say with certainty that Trump belongs to the category of perfectly recruited people," the former intelligence chief continued. He has "no doubt that Russia has compromised the President of the United States and that the Kremlin has promoted Trump to the position of President of the most important world power for many years," claims Mussayev. The ex-KGB agent continues these statements for quite a while before concluding with a warning. Trump hopes "never to be recognized as an agent of Moscow's influence." If the Republican succeeds in doing this in cooperation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, "he will ensure a comfortable stay in the White House in the next term by appointing and deploying people who are dependent on him in all areas of power and enforcement," according to the former secret agent's gloomy forecast. Secret service documents disappeared: Putin's confidants are said to manage Trump's KGB file In the comments section, the former secret service agent provides further fuel for the fire. "I hope I survive a third assassination attempt," he wrote there, among other things. In another comment, he makes another shocking accusation: "Today, 'Krasnov's' personnel file was removed from the FSB archives. It is managed privately by a close confidant of Putin." Of course, Mussayev does not provide any evidence for his claims, as the US portal The Daily Beast notes. Nevertheless, the statements contribute to the ongoing speculation about Trump's connections to Russia. Trump's first visit to Moscow as a real estate developer in 1987 has already been closely scrutinized. And speculation says that the trip was arranged by the KGB for dubious reasons. How much influence does Russian President Vladimir Putin have on US President Donald Trump? According to the US portal Politico, in 1985 the KGB updated a secret personality questionnaire that was distributed within the agency. Agents were instructed to target "prominent figures in the West" with the aim of bringing them "into some form of cooperation with us". Be it "as an agent, confidential or special or unofficial contact". Putin's spy or coincidence? – Trump's current stance fits the pattern of his past statements Trump has denied any improper connections to Moscow or collusion with Putin. But Mussayev is not the first to claim to know of such a connection. Former KGB spy Yuri Shvets, who was sent to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, told a similar story to the British Guardian in 2021. The current US president, according to Shvets, was built up as a Russian agent for over 40 years. He proved so willing to parrot anti-Western propaganda that he was celebrated for it in Moscow. Shortly after his first visit to Russia in 1987, Trump took out a full-page ad in several US newspapers with the headline: "There is nothing wrong with America's foreign and defense policy that cannot be fixed with a little backbone." In Ronald Reagan's Cold War America, Trump used it to accuse Japan of exploiting the United States and express skepticism about U.S. participation in NATO. According to the report, the general thrust of this open-letter-style ad was "why America should stop paying for the defense of countries that can afford to defend themselves." A statement that sounds familiar.