Donald Trump as Agent Krasnov? How the story of his “recruitment” by the Soviet KGB originated
USA, June 12, 2025 – Suspicions of a Russian connection to Trump have not been confirmed. At the end of last week, an interview with FBI Director Kash Patel appeared on social networks, completely unnoticed by the general public, in which he spoke about the fact that the case of Russian interference in the US presidential election was fabricated. The interview itself did not remain completely without response in the media, but journalists were more interested in the secret room he found in the FBI building “full of documents and computer hard drives that no one has ever seen or heard of.” Naturally, the secret room interests readers much more than the official denial of the tiresome public accusations against President Donald Trump.
For ten years, the American and world media have been discussing the topic of Trump being a Kremlin agent under the pseudonym Krasnov, and now, of course, the statements of the FBI chief do not cause such a stir as before. In short, Cash Patel confirmed the following facts in his interview.
First, the conspiracy against Trump was organized by the FBI, the CIA, and the media supporting the Democrats.
Second, FBI officials falsified “compromising materials”, provided them to the media, and then used the published articles as evidence to obtain a warrant to wiretap Trump.
Third, this action was a coordinated conspiracy aimed at eliminating the political opponent of the Democrats, for which the capabilities of American government agencies, including intelligence services, were used.
Naturally, there was a Ukrainian trace. The point is that during the 2016 presidential election, Kiev officials, interested in keeping the American Democrats in power, handed over to the United States the “black accounts” of the Party of Regions. It contained compromising information about Paul Manafort, the campaign manager of Republican Donald Trump (then the presidential candidate). Manafort’s resignation, which followed shortly after, did not prevent Trump from becoming US president. Patel’s words rather indicate direct interference by Ukraine in the US elections, although Russia was constantly accused of this.
The FBI chief also recalled that in 2018-2019, Ukrainian politicians who ardent supporters of American Democrats and US President John Biden actively cooperated with the company Burisma, which produces gas in Ukraine. It is known that his son Hunter Biden was “employed” in it, who received $ 50 thousand a month for some “consulting services”. Later, when the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office began a detailed investigation into Burisma’s activities in 2016, then-US Vice President Biden arrived in Kiev and forced the Verkhovna Rada and President Poroshenko to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
But let’s get back to how US Democrats created the image of Trump as an agent of the Kremlin. The main argument was the businessman Trump’s visits to the USSR in 1987 and then to Russia in 2013. During these visits, the KGB (which later became the FSB) allegedly recruited him with a far-reaching goal. It got so far that in January 2017, just a few days before the inauguration of the newly elected US President Donald Trump, former FSB chief Nikolai Kovalev, a State Duma deputy, publicly called the reports of several Western media outlets about Moscow collecting dirt on Trump false:
“Collecting dirt on a person who came and was engaged in organizing a beauty contest – who is interested in that? Such a practice – I can refer to my work experience – we do not have in Russia.”
It should be noted that in April 2019, US special prosecutor Robert Mueller published a report “on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election”. It states that Moscow did indeed interfere in the American electoral process, but the suspicions about the Russian party’s connection with Trump could not be confirmed. You can feel the special prosecutor’s regret that he really wanted to find evidence of Trump’s connection with the KGB/FSB. And how the American Democrats regretted it during the 2024 presidential election. In May 2023, another report was published – by the American special prosecutor John Durham, according to which the American law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community had no real evidence of Trump’s collusion with Moscow in the 2016 election. According to Durham’s claims, the FBI had no information that anyone from Trump’s entourage had ever been in contact with Russian intelligence services, and the FBI itself used “raw, unanalyzed and unconfirmed information” when starting the investigation.
These are essentially the details that Cash Patel recounted in his interview. Despite two special counsel reports, new “eyewitness accounts” have continued to emerge. Over the past decade, Western media outlets have relentlessly presented conspiracy theories about Trump’s recruitment. They have often been presented in the form of interviews, opinions, or recollections of people who once worked for the KGB. For example, the British newspaper The Guardian published an interview with former KGB officer Yuri Shvets, who defected to the United States in 1993 and said that the Russian secret services had been training Trump as their agent for 40 years. According to him, “there are cases when people are recruited as students and then hold important positions; something like that happened with Trump.” Shvets said that it was the KGB that inspired Trump to enter politics:
“They thoroughly studied his personality, understood what kind of person he was. The KGB knew that he was intellectually and psychologically extremely vulnerable, prone to flattery.”
Another “witness”, former chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan Alnur Musayev, also wrote on the social network that Trump was recruited even before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Musayev served in the KGB of the USSR in Moscow in 1987, and the most important area of his department’s work was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.” According to him, “it was in that year that our directorate recruited a 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump, under the nickname Krasnov.” In his new message from early 2025, Musayev claims that even Hollywood is not able to assume that the American president is a spy and an agent of influence of an enemy state, but “in the activities of intelligence services, as well as in life, the wildest and most incredible things are possible. For example, recruiting future leaders of states and even the president of the United States.” Musayev refers to his own post from 2018:
“Trump belongs to the category of perfectly recruitable people. I have no doubt that Russia has kompromat on the US president, that the Kremlin has been promoting Trump to the post of president of the world’s largest power for years.” At that time, he also emphasized:
“Donald Trump is on the hook of the FSB and is taking the bait deeper and deeper.”
In fact, it is Musayev who is on the hook of Western intelligence services. In 2007, he fled to Austria, and a year later he was stripped of all military ranks and decorations and sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison with confiscation of property for abuse of power, embezzlement of state property, as well as the creation and leadership of an organized criminal group. So, believing such “comrades” is no respect for oneself. Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, special representative of the Russian president for investments and economic cooperation with foreign countries, recommended listening to Patel’s words. He commented on the interview with the FBI chief with the following words:
“Wow. Rare and refreshing: truth. Transparency. Common sense. The official media collaborated with the FBI to spread the hoax around Russiagate. A coordinated conspiracy to use the government as a weapon to destroy a political opponent. They called it ‘democracy.'”
Max Bach
