It’s one thing to grasp at straws when bashing President Donald Trump, which the mainstream media has predictably done with a vengeance ever since, well, ever since 2015, really.
However, it’s quite another to resort to searching the social media pages of former intelligence officers for communist regimes in an effort to discredit the president.
Yet that’s exactly what one of the most “credible” political news outlets just did, publishing a lengthy editorial on all the ways in which Trump is apparently not only a potential KGB agent, but also a KGB agent that’s been nearly forty years in the making.
That’s right: Not only is Trump apparently part of the KGB, but he’s a nearly 40-year member of it.
Amazing how he kept that such a secret! Particularly when Russian President Vladimir Putin’s involvement is quite well known, though details about Putin are generally far more private.
But such logic does not play into the opinion piece, to put it mildly.
In a rather startling opinion piece, The Hill posits a wild theory that even former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did not embrace – the theory that Trump has apparently been a KGB asset for nearly forty years.”
“Was 40-year-old Trump recruited by the KGB?” The Hill blared in its headline, before commencing a rather lengthy editorial that is underfilled with evidence and overfilled with “what ifs?”
“The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate mogul first visited Moscow,” The Hill began.
Ah, what a compelling way to begin a supposedly serious journalistic endeavor.
Quoting an intelligence head who used to serve in the Soviet Union.
Because all social media posts from communist intelligence forces are so above the board and honest.
Even The Hill admits that no evidence is provided.
“Mussayev provides no documentary evidence – but then how could he?” The Hill admitted, adding that “Trump’s file” is allegedly in “Vladimir Putin’s hands.”
How could he? Well, how could many others provide evidence of all kinds of events from much longer ago than 1987? Is The Hill serious?
Per another report from Yahoo! News, Trump’s alleged code name was “Krasnov.”
Well, how about that. Who knew that President “Krasnov” was in charge of the nation now?
To apparently “support” its assertions, The Hill made other spurious claims, naturally citing other communist actors with a vested interest in internal division across the United States.
“Just after Mussayev made his claim, another ex-KGB officer living in France, Sergei Zhyrnov, categorically endorsed the allegations in an interview with a Ukrainian journalist,” The Hill asserted.
Uh huh. How convenient.
“According to Zhyrnov, Trump would have been surrounded 24/7 by KGB operatives, including everyone from his cab driver to the maid servicing his hotel room. Zhyrnov said that Trump’s every move would have been recorded and documented, and that he could have been either caught in a ‘honey trap’ … or perhaps recorded bribing Moscow city officials in order to promote his idea of building a hotel in the Soviet capital,” The Hillcontinued.
Of course, of course. Frankly, the Hillary Clinton-backed “dossier” on Trump had more “merit” than this article … and her dossier had next to nothing.
This article, however, may well be pure fantasy, masquerading as serious journalism.
“Mussayev isn’t the only ex-KGB officer to have made such an assertion. Several years ago, Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major now resident in Washington, D.C., served as one of the key sources for Craig Unger’s best-selling book, American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery,” The Hill observed.
Uh huh.
Naturally, The Hill continues to cite no evidence, the very behavior that it routinely criticizes Trump for.
“None of these former KGB operatives has provided evidence, but the fact that three KGB agents located in different places and speaking at different times agree on the story suggests this possibility should not be dismissed out of hand,” The Hill asserted.
Well, sure. The possibility that an asteroid may well strike the earth any second should also not be “dismissed out of hand,” but it probably doesn’t make much sense to endlessly dwell on that possibility either.
Hilariously the article goes as far as to cite “Occam’s razor” as alleged evidence, with Occam’s Razor being defined as “the philosophical principle that claims that simple explanations should be preferred to complex ones.”
Here’s a simple explanation: The media is enraged Trump won, and it’s even more enraged that Trump is winning.
Hence pitiable hit pieces such as this article.
“If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the first Trump administration and from the initial weeks of the second, it is that everything, including what appears to be impossible, is possible,” The Hill pompously asserted.
By all means, continue on with the non-evidence.
“We’ll probably never know the truth. But even with no slam-dunk evidence, the allegations should be, to say the least, disturbing, especially for the genuine patriots in the MAGA camp,” The Hill concluded.
At last, a more accurate remark. As it is highly likely that no “truth” will ever emerge with regards to Trump being an alleged KGB agent.
Unsurprisingly, the author of the opinion piece is a political science professor at Rutgers University, located deep within deep blue New Jersey.
Go figure.
Author: Ofelia Thornton
