Mussayev is not the first former KGB officer to make such a claim. Years ago, Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major now living in Washington, D.C., was a key source for Craig Unger’s book American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump,

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Trump's talks with the Russian president may endanger U.S. security interests if he "gives away his cards," Michael McFaul said.

To seasoned diplomatic observers, US President Donald Trump’s furious dressing down of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office was a planned political mugging, a trap set by the Trump administration to discredit the Ukrainian leader and remove him as an obstacle to whatever comes next.

Former Kazakh intelligence chief Ainur Mussayev has alleged that US President Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB during his 1987 visit to Moscow. Other former KGB officers have supported the claim,

It’s a “turning of the page” as European leaders try to fast-track plans to bolster defenses and back Ukraine — and ultimately curb reliance on the United States.

It has been claimed that when Donald Trump travelled to Moscow for the first time back in 1987, as a 40-year-old real estate developer, he was recruited as a KGB agent

"We're really on a knife-edge here," said Calder Walton, a historian specializing in intelligence at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.