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How the KGB Hooked Trump

An excerpt from “American Kompromat,” by Craig Unger, on the longtime connections between Donald Trump and the Russians.

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Jeff Stein
Jan 26, 2021
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WAS DONALD TRUMP a Russian asset? Just how compromised was he? And how could such an audacious feat have been accomplished? Based on extensive, exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—Soviets who resigned from the KGB and moved to the United States, former officers and agents in the CIA and FBI, lawyers at white-shoe Washington firms—and …

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