Was Donald Trump really recruited by KGB and given the codename ‘Krasnov’?

A rumour has been circulating online that President Donald Trump was a Russian asset for the KGB nicknamed ‘Krasnov’.

The falsehood was shared by a former Soviet and Kazakh official, Alnur Mussayev, and quickly gained traction, with one X user even writing a lengthy thread of ‘evidence’ they had gathered about Trump.

It was alleged that in 1987, the KGB – the Soviet Union’s intelligence agency – recruited Trump as a Russian asset and nicknamed him ‘Krasnov’.

Photos of Trump with his former wife, Ivana, were shared as ‘proof’ of the successful recruitment of the President in the 80s.

The problem is, it’s not true. An investigation from Snopes has debunked the entire tale as completely false.

Mussayev – who claimed to have worked in the KGB until 1987, actually only worked there until 1986, before moving into the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

There’s no hard evidence to show that Trump was made into a KGB agent in the 1980s, but suspicions were raised again recently after he seemingly sided with Russia in its war against Ukraine, berating President Zelensky in the White House.

The USA has seemingly done a 180 on its Russia foreign policy.

Last week, the US joined Russia, North Korea, Belarus and Israel to vote against a UN resolution to condemn the bloodshed in a double blow to both Europe and Ukraine.

The largely symbolic vote – held on the third anniversary of the invasion – reflects the growing schism between Europe and the US, and the American ‘rehabilitation’ of Russia.

Experts told Metro that the resolution is another indication of the way in which Russia has ‘successfully flipped’ the White House, branding it a ‘Trumputin Pact’.

Sir Bill Browder added: ‘If Trump is doing this, I think we can pretty safely assume he is going to do a lot of the other things that he threatened to do: taking over Greenland, the Panama Canal, etc.

‘If he is unrestrained when it comes to someone like Putin, why would he restrain himself on other areas of foreign policy which everybody had sort of laughed off as being outrageous? They may now very well be true.’

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