Malcolm Nance Drops Chilling Warning: Trump Could Be A ‘Wholly Owned’ Russian Agent
Posted on Mon, Jan 14th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
MSNBC counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance dropped a chilling warning on Monday night: Donald Trump could be a “wholly owned” Russian asset.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Nance laid out what he said could be the “worst case scenario” regarding Trump’s ties to Russia.
“The worst case scenario is that Donald Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kremlin,” he said. “That he actually is not only in debt to the Kremlin. He is aware, it has been made clear to him that that debt is going to be used against him and it will be leveraged and that he will do the bidding of Vladimir Putin.”
Nance said: Well, the worst case scenario is that Donald Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kremlin. That he actually is not only in debt to the Kremlin. He is aware, it has been made clear to him that that debt is going to be used against him and it will be leveraged and that he will do the bidding of Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin is a KGB human intelligence officer. His job was to turn people into traitors and to run agents into West Germany to steal technology. He knows what he’s doing.
His top four senior staff were all ex-KGB, FSB and a person like Donald Trump would be a godsend. And now Putin wouldn’t do it directly, Chris. What he would do is he would do it through inference and he would use his oligarchy to act like a carrot and a stick for Donald Trump to do the things that he wants. And he has already indoctrinated him and, as we’re seeing now, these things are playing out and the FBI had to have known it because the U.S. intelligence community knew this well before the election and had to start an investigation to determine if he was Moscow’s asset, witting or unwitting. Trump continues to act like a Russian asset
The president threw gasoline on this raging fire when he refused to directly answer a softball question from Fox News host Jeanine Pirro about whether he ever worked for Russia.
Instead of answering unequivocally, Trump responded, “I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked.”
If Donald Trump isn’t a Russian asset, he’s certainly bad at acting like it.
Malcolm Nance Says Trump Is Part Of A Long-Term Russian Intelligence Operation
Mon, Feb 11th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
While much of the focus of Trump’s ties to Russia zero in on the 2016 presidential campaign, counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance said on Monday that the president was central to a Russian intelligence operation years before he became a presidential candidate.
In an interview with Chris Matthews, Nance said the Russian operation that ultimately helped Trump become president started in 2012 when the now-president “made contact with Konstantin Rykov, the head of Russia’s TV 1.”
“This operation has a longer timeline,” Nance said, calling a possible quid pro quo with Russia over sanctions “just one component of a very broad-based intelligence operation.”
This operation has a longer timeline. We saw that in 2012 Donald Trump had already made contact with Konstantin Rykov, the head of Russia’s TV 1. 2013, they established the internet research agency two months before the Miss Universe pageant. 2014 they invade Crimea and Trump is effusive in his praise of Vladimir Putin. 2015, Russia starts hacking the DNC. This particular component with Konstantin Kilimnik is just a guarantor that they are going to get in and have those sanctions raised if this can be proven. So this is just one component of a very broad-based intelligence operation.
Despite what Trump says, collusion with Russia is in Mueller’s sights
While Trump has been bragging in recent days about GOP Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr’s statement last week that his committee has no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, new reporting indicates that it’s still very much in Mueller’s sights.
According to The New York Times, “Comments by one of Mr. Mueller’s lead prosecutors, disclosed in a transcript of a closed-door hearing, suggest that the special counsel continues to pursue at least one theory: that starting while Russia was taking steps to bolster Mr. Trump’s candidacy, people in his orbit were discussing deals to end a dispute over Russia’s incursions into Ukraine and possibly give Moscow relief from economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies.”
But ultimately, as Malcolm Nance said, the campaign portion of Trump’s relationship with Russia appears to be just the beginning of what was a long-term intelligence operation to put Trump in the White House, where he would do the Kremlin’s bidding.
The longer Trump remains in the White House, the more it looks like he has been living up to his end of the bargain – for years.