‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years.
This really doesn’t surprise anyone, right? It shouldn’t — most of us have been talking about it on Twitter for at least four years.
“Then, in 1987, Trump visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics.” 2/X
Shortly after, Trump began considering running for POTUS one day.
“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.” 3/X
I’ve often discussed how Trump was vulnerable to world leaders and intelligence agencies due to the fact that it’s so easy to get inside his bubble — you just have to satiate his ego and his personal sense of grandiosity.
Say nice things and spend money at his properties. 4/X
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day”
Putin is a master at this. 5/X