I was of your opinion during the Biden administration. Now after researching the Epstein issues, I don't think that Trump was a formal asset but he definitely engaged in mutually beneficial deals. I think the presentation of the DNC and the infamous letter signed by 50 security analysts was a mistake.

If you go back:

- Trump bought extensive anti NATO full page ads around 1987 right after an extended trip to Russia.

- The father of Ivana was a Czech spy.

- Trump had a Russian buy a Florida house way above market price.

- Trump used a Russian expat to install TV sets in his Hyatt hotel (nice way of surveilling all guests).

- Trump was bailed out by Deutsche Bank (Epstein's favorite bank) when he was blacklisted by all American banks after his largest of innumerable bankruptcies. Whether that bailout was financed by Russians has not been proven but is still thought likely.

It is also possible that all that is his cover and he actually is a CIA asset. With Trump you just have to watch what he does and guess.

that's not at all true, Muller found clear evidence of systematic Russian influence campaigns with a goal towards influencing the election towards trump. despite the existence of a few suspicious meetings between the trump campaign and the Russian, there was insufficient evidence to bring forward a criminal case for collusion.

Not sure how this got flagged. It is clearly pertinent and accurate… I’m starting to doubt that this platform really enables objective discussion

the comment has good points but then ruins everything saying it was just propaganda that Trump was a Russian asset.

you can say "asset" was exaggeration or whatever, but Trump to Putin was so obviously undeservedly friendly that it already begs the question, plus there's enough suspicious stuff including multiple ex KGB agents who are sure he was recruited/honeytrapped at some point. ignoring it as just democrat propaganda is republican propaganda. only one of those agents is even in US

Is your claim that the Steele dossier was not DNC propaganda, or that there is other evidence he's a Russian asset?

The Steele dossier has been discredited repeatedly.

I don't know who is Steele and never heard of the dossier, so the other thing