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Illustrative: US President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
Former US president Donald Trump was nurtured as a Russian asset for decades, starting in 1980, a new book claims, with Moscow actively encouraging the businessman to enter politics many years before he won the presidency and supporting him through numerous failed business ventures as it built a “deep” relationship with the mogul.
“He was an asset,” former KGB spy Yuri Shvets, who worked for the KGB in Washington DC for years in the 1980s, told journalist Craig Unger in the new book American Kompromat.