Just when you thought the left couldn’t get any more desperate, they go and try to resurrect the Russiagate narrative that plagued news coverage of former President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.
A former KGB spy told The Guardian that the former president was “cultivated as a Russian asset” for over four decades and that Russia’s government was supposedly thrilled when he became president because he engaged in “anti-western propaganda” before entering politics.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin.
The book also explores the…
