Trump’s Russian handlers

If he wasn't a Russian asset, there sure were a lot of amazing coincidences.

SpyTalk has a lengthy excerpt from Craig Unger’s new book, American Kompromat, about Soviet and Russian security agencies’ decades-long relationship with the 45th President, and it makes for fascinating reading.

It seems quite fitting that Trump, who skillfully portrayed a successful businessman on TV, started his relationship with the KGB via an order of television sets:

The operation began after Trump, about 30 years old at the time, acquired the enormous and decrepit Commodore Hotel adjacent to New York City’s Grand Central Terminal in 1976. It has been widely reported over the years how Trump, who paid only $1 for the option to buy the hotel, made an immense fortune by converting it into the Grand Hyatt New York in 1980.

Despite all we know about the deal, one obscure, seemingly mundane detail in the development of the Grand Hyatt may be key to unraveling Donald Trump’s ties to Russian intelligence. The incident in question is the reported purchase by Trump of hundreds of television …