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Fact check: Was Donald Trump recruited by the KGB and codenamed 'Krasnov'?
Estelle Nilsson-JulienThu, 13 March 2025 at 10:22 pm GMT+8·4-min read
When former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev claimed that US President Donald Trump was recruited as an asset for Moscow in the 1980s, it set off a storm on social media.
In a Facebook post on 20 February, Mussayev said that Trump was enlisted by the KGB in 1987 while on a trip to Moscow, then aged 40, and assigned the code name "Krasnov".
Trump has not directly responded to Mussayev's claims. The US president has repeatedly denied having ever worked for Russia.
One thread on X, which has amassed more than 1 million views, refers to Trump as "Krasnov" and brands the US president as a Russian asset. The post goes on to list a series of claims which it presents as purported evidence for this declaration.
Meanwhile, other social media users turned to mockery, with one account posting a photo montage of Trump in a KGB outfit, with the political slogan and acronym MAGA ("Make America Great Again") altered to read "Moscow Agent Governing America".
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-donald-trump-recruited-133747397.html