She chose him because he was "mentally unstable", "impulsive" and "unbalanced".
Secret documents confirm that Russian intelligence "planted" Trump in the White House
Trump is Moscow's favorite man and Putin meets in Helsinki.
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Cohen was part of the espionage operation to plant Trump in the White House.
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The Guardian newspaper revealed documents confirming that Russian intelligence had installed its favorite candidate, Donald Trump, to become president of America, and the newspaper indicated that in January 2016, America was on a date with an unexpected event, the Republican Party candidate for the presidency Trump was on his way to become president of the country And a number of Americans welcomed it, while some Republicans were horrified, the same man was certain of victory when he told his opponent, Ted Cruz, in a debate on Fox News, “I have a feeling it will actually work for me.” Opinion polls lead Trump, who rushed like a snow storm towards Washington.
Astonishing and confusing rise
Russia already knew of Trump's astonishing and bewildering rise, while the American public did not. His personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, had long been in touch with the office of the Kremlin press secretary, pleading with him to help build a luxury hotel in Moscow, the dream. Which has been haunting Trump for decades.
Meanwhile, Trump spoke of Russian President Vladimir Putin with intriguing admiration, the same person some prominent American politicians have spoken of as a cold-blooded KGB man. “Wouldn't that be cool?" Trump asked. To agree with Russia.
Whether Trump is the Kremlin's favorite is not in doubt, but what has not been clear is the extent to which Russia is willing to help Trump win the presidency.
The Guardian spent months verifying papers that would answer this question. The newspaper's investigation revealed that Western intelligence agencies had known about those papers and had examined them for some time. Independent experts the Guardian spoke to confirmed that these papers are consistent with The Kremlin's thinking and its chain of command.
The papers indicate that as Trump progressed in his election campaign, a group of analysts within the Russian administration was finalizing a secret paper with an attractive title: "Report on the strengthening of the state and the stabilization of Russia's position under conditions of external economic constraints," but its contents were not. .
multi-tiered plan
The document describes how Putin's experts have been insisting on a multi-layered plan to meddle in the race for the White House, the goal being to destabilize America, and experts confidently believe that one candidate (Trump) above all might help achieve this, as he is "mentally unstable" and impulsive. and unbalanced.”
Presented as entirely defensive, the plan was presented as the administration of former President Barack Obama inflicted damage on the Russian economy with the imposition of sanctions, the report said that Russia's living standards are declining, regional elites are unhappy, and the drunken euphoria sparked by Putin's inclusion of quasi Crimea in 2014, as well as “potential domestic political dangers ahead.” The document said that a reasonable course from Moscow’s viewpoint would be to take measures that would “pressure” America to rescind or ease anti-Russian sanctions.
She notes that on January 14, the head of the Russian President's expert office, Vladimir Simonenko, wrote a three-page summary, stating that "at the moment the Russian Federation finds itself in a dilemma, and US actions continue to affect all areas of public life." Putin's foreign policy chief, Alexander Manzhausen, arranged an urgent meeting of the National Security Council, Russia's highest decision-making body.
Chance to understand the contents
By January 22, the other members of the Security Council had the opportunity to understand its contents. The first part dealt with the Russian economy. As for the secret US measures, it was mentioned in a special section beginning on page 14 of the document. The report seems to confirm what Trump later denied;
That Putin's spy agencies have collected bargaining chips for him, possibly dating back to the KGB era.
Trump's character flaws were so widespread and marked by an "inferiority complex" that he was the perfect person to fuel divisions and weaken America's negotiating position. The newspaper said Trump's assessment was based on evidence drawn from observing his behavior during his trips to Russia.
Trump visited communist Moscow and Leningrad in the summer of 1987, after an invitation from the Soviet envoy in New York, and Trump returned to Russia in the nineties and early 2000s, looking for business deals, and traveled to participate in the Miss Universe contest in 2013, where he stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow.
The Senate Intelligence Committee later revealed that Putin's FSB had spy cameras in guest rooms and a full-time officer in the building. sites.
Annex 5 of the document, under the title “Personal Characteristics of Donald Trump,” fifth paragraph, states that “in view of some events that occurred during his stay on the territory of the Russian Federation, it is urgent to use all means to promote his election to the office of President of the United States.” .
special committee
Papers seen by The Guardian indicate that after the Security Council meeting, Putin formed a special interdepartmental committee headed by his close ally, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Shoigu was in the general command to influence the 2016 US elections and asked military intelligence Foreign intelligence and the FSB are preparing immediate practical steps to help achieve the preferred scenario, which is Trump's victory.
These events came at a time of tension in the Russian internal spy agency, as the head of Russia's foreign intelligence agency, SVR, Mikhail Fradkov, at the time, was a weak figure.
In 2010, the FBI arrested 10 of Fradkov's sleeper agents in America, and this scandal severely damaged his power, and the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and the FSB rarely had them. Hidden ambitions to take over SVR duties abroad, meanwhile, the director of GRU, Igor Sergun, died two weeks before the meeting.
By the spring of 2016, a team of GRU hackers had moved into an unidentified glass tower in northwest Moscow, working closely with colleagues in a downtown building. The first phishing email was sent on March 19 to Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
As the report correctly depicts, the stolen emails became a "media virus" that infected and weakened the Democratic campaign, and its contents reached millions of American voters via Facebook and Twitter.
By the fall, Obama was convinced that Putin had personally approved the hack, which Clinton believes cost the presidency. In October 2016, Obama protested to his Russian counterpart in a phone call, telling him that his interference in the election was an "act of war," describing the 2019 report. Counsel, prepared by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, called the Kremlin operation "sweeping and systematic," and in 2020 the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee said it was "aggressive and multifaceted."
GRU spy Konstantin Kilimnik held secret meetings with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and provided Kilimnik with private polling and other data, and the two communicated using encrypted messages and shared email drafts.
And something strange happened during the infamous 2018 summit in Helsinki, which brought together Trump and Putin.
In response to a question at a press conference about condemning Russian hacking of America, Trump supported Putin's assertion that Moscow did not interfere in the elections, a claim that contradicts the findings of all 14 US intelligence agencies, and after a backlash at home, amid speculation That the Russians are somehow blackmailing the president, Trump said he got it wrong.
Putin has repeatedly denied allegations that he is interfering in US politics, and Western governments do not believe him.
According to US intelligence officials, Moscow sought to influence the 2020 election by publishing "misleading or baseless allegations" against Joe Biden, and last year Russian hackers infiltrated several US federal institutions in a large-scale cyber attack.
• Trump's personal shortcomings were so widespread, characterized by an "inferiority complex," that he was the ideal person to fuel divisions and weaken America's negotiating position.
• Russia was already aware of Trump's astonishing and confusing rise, while the American public does not know anything about it.
• Putin has repeatedly denied allegations that he is interfering in US politics, and Western governments do not believe him. According to US intelligence officials, Moscow sought to influence the 2020 elections by publishing "misleading or baseless allegations" against Joe Biden.
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