Written on 21 March 2025, updated on 15 September 2026. Whilst Donald Trump has had ties with Russia since 1987, his son and daughter-in-law are ‘no slouches’ either: the oligarch Kremlew is said to have covered part of the costs of his son’s wedding, see cover above. The figure mentioned is $170,000.
Here is the synopsis, translated into Italian, of the book *Our Man in Washington*, published in France by Grasset
Régis Genté ’s book was published in October 2024, before Donald Trump’s election.On 5 November, Donald Trump will once again be a candidate for the US presidency. But it seems the man has been under Moscow’s influence for decades. Will the leading Western power soon be led by a president ‘held hostage’ by a Russia in the midst of its standoff with the West?
In the 1970s, the KGB realised it was lagging behind in recruiting informants. In the United States, it identified and then cultivated an ambitious and unscrupulous young property developer from New York: Donald Trump. An ideal target to turn into an agent of influence – a goal likely achieved during a first trip to Moscow in 1987. On his return, Trump took a public stance criticising NATO, entirely in line with the Kremlin’s position.
The Russian intelligence services provided him with discreet but substantial financial support, channelled through a network of Soviet mafia figures, spies and oligarchs. All of them backed Trump, often without fully understanding the reasons behind this support. Whenever he came close to bankruptcy, the generous mafia figures would buy flats in his Trump Towers or invest in his property developments. These covert bailouts left traces of Russian money, particularly through the turbulent role played by Deutsche Bank.
The incredible 2016 election campaign confirms suspicions of the candidate’s collusion with the Kremlin: members of his entourage in close contact with the Russians, dubious funding, a $56 million profit on the sale of his Palm Beach home to the oligarch Dmitry Rybolev, the hacking of thousands of emails belonging to the candidate Hillary Clinton, and so on. Indeed, President Trump is conciliatory towards Moscow: he flatters Putin, reiterates his desire to dismantle NATO, adopts illiberal stances… The current campaign is moving in the same direction, with Trump saying he is prepared to stop supporting Ukraine.
Through thorough documentary research and on-the-ground interviews, Régis Genté examines the many clues that suggest Trump is the Russians’ man. With his election, Putin can hope to halt US support for Kyiv. This would result in a Russian victory in Ukraine, with incalculable consequences for the free world. If Trump is the Russians’ man, he could be the gravedigger of the democratic West.
Alexander Dugin, Putin’s philosopher, places Putin and Trump among the ‘good guys’ in his worldview, alongside the Church: ‘The globalists love perverts, illegal immigrants, Zelensky, LGBT people, trans people, corruption, lies, sin and Satan. They hate Christ, tradition, identity, patriotism, truth, the Church, Putin, Trump, the family, health, truth and holiness. The globalists hate me and hate everything I love. I hate them right back.”
The milestones:
1977: first KGB file on Trump
1984: links with Robert Li Butti, an associate of John Gotti, godfather of the Gambino clan for Atlantic City, and – in Brighton Beach – with Russian mafia members who had immigrated to the US
1987: In July of that year, Trump travelled to Russia with Ivana, Ivanka’s mother. He became a ‘confidential contact’ for the KGB. His friendship with the Russians was confirmed during trips in 1996, 2008 and 2013.
From 1987 onwards: an exodus of KGB funds – billions of dollars – from the USSR, which would collapse in 1991. The secret services set up companies abroad, particularly in the USA.
In 1990, there were 600 such companies
1993: Trump was ‘handled’ by the KGB
1998: Trump became a client of Deutsche Bank.
In his bankruptcies, extremely high guarantees: who else could be behind this but the Russians? Kremlin triangulation (via overseas companies) – Deutsche Bank – Trump (Deutsche Bank being closely linked to Vnechtorg Bank (VTB)).
2008: Dimitri Rybolovlev – pictured above – bought him a villa worth $41 million for $95 million, helping him out of one of his many bankruptcies.
Oleg Deripaska, who had purchased a $3.6 million flat in Trump Tower, was probably the direct link between Trump and the Kremlin (before subsequently falling from grace).
In 2014, he declared his intention to “destroy NATO” and “abandon Ukraine”.
2016: Sergei Millian: Trump received “hundreds of millions as a result of dealings with Russian businessmen”.
In a post published on Monday morning on her Instagram page and signed by the couple, Bettina Trump wrote that the man, Umar Kremlev, was a “dear friend” who “very generously treated us to two incredible evenings of celebrations AFTER our wedding”…
Below: Kremlev’s background and his links to Donald Trump Jr.
That same year, the Kremlin decided he was their candidate, who would be able to“sow chaos in American democracy and institutions”(anyone with doubts on this matter should watch an episode of *Atlantide* by the late Andrea Purgatori).
“The Russians’ aim was to let the American political system rot from within, undermining confidence in the political system, just as the KGB has been doing for decades.”
All his associates – Michael T. Flynn, Paul Manafort and Dimitri Simes – were very close to the Russian secret services.
Trump has always criticised the federal government, going so far as to say that it representsthe ‘Deep State’(a term which, in conspiracy theory parlance, – at a political level, the collective term for those bodies, whether legal or not, which, thanks to their economic, military or strategic powers, influence the agenda of public objectives, covertly and regardless of the political strategies of the world’s states, far from the eyes of public opinion) and “has played with fire by fuelling his country’s political, social, racial and religious divisions”, offering “Putin a unique opportunity to weaken the United States”.
“Trump is a blessing for Putin”.
During his first term, Trump was simply hampered in his actions by his own administration.
Now he faces no more obstacles.
I have edited the quoted passages and the summary. Below you will find a review from *Le Monde*. Below that: amongst Dugin’s ‘good guys’ we recognise Musk, Trump, Kennedy, Vance, etc.
‘Notre homme a Washington’, by Régis Genté: the scandalous links between Donald Trump and Russia
In an investigation that reads like a spy novel, the journalist demonstrates that, for forty years, the Soviet and then Russian secret services have been ‘cultivating’ the future president.
By Marie Jégo
Book. Is Donald Trump a Russian agent? This is the question posed by independent journalist Régis Genté in a lively and well-researched account that reads like an adventure novel. Thanks to an in-depth investigation, the book traces forty years of murky relations between the American president and the Soviet Union, and later Russia. A constant and not always entirely transparent relationship that the author describes as a form of collaboration, given that the New York property developer has long been associating with Russian diplomats, spies, mafia figures and oligarchs.
Almost fifty members of the ‘red mafia’ have established direct or indirect links with Donald Trump, explains Régis Genté. However, these red mafiosi have never ceased to cooperate with the Soviet and later Russian intelligence services, even after leaving the USSR. “ The former Soviet Union is such that, behind every ‘red mafioso’, every oligarch, every business intermediary, there is a Chekist [ member of the secret services],” describes Régis Genté. Among Donald Trump’s unsavoury associates is the mafia boss Vyacheslav Ivankov, known as ‘Yapontchik’ (‘the little Japanese’), who, until 2004, had his headquarters in Trump Tower, New York.
Although he was not recruited, it is a certainty thatthe 47th President of the United States was approached by the Soviet and later Russian secret services, who ‘cultivated’ him for a full forty years, providing him with services and supporting him. This fact has been confirmed by several officials from the US intelligence community whom the author met.
Dirty money
Betting on Russia proved to be a lucrative venture for Donald Trump: between 2000 and 2016, the businessman, despite several failures, received a number of loans from Deutsche Bank and its partner, VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank. Closely linked to the Russian secret services, this bank – led by Andrei Kostin, a former KGB officer close to Russian President Vladimir Putin – channelled dirty money to Donald Trump via Deutsche Bank. Régis Genté draws in particular on the investigation led by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller into allegations of Kremlin interference in the 2016 presidential election campaign, which was ultimately won by Donald Trump.
Three weeks after the 2016 election, the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who harboured ambitions to dominate American diplomacy, met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak at Trump Tower. Seeking to establish a ‘secret’ channel of communication between the president-elect’s team and the Kremlin, he suggested the Russian embassy in Washington as the venue for the meeting! The Kremlin is drinking whey… and may well have the opportunity to drink more very soon. Re-elected for a second term, Donald Trump seems more determined than ever to build an authoritarian, isolationist and, above all, Russia-friendly America.
I shall discuss the ideology underpinning the MAGA project and that which drives Putin’s men in a forthcoming article.
But I can reveal that Françoise Thom,a Frenchhistorian and writer, Sovietologist, lecturer in contemporary history at the Sorbonne in Paris, and specialist in post-communist Russia – who has authored works and political analyses on that country and its leaders for *Le Monde* – says that “the list of favours Trump has done for Moscow is growing by the day”.
In an interview, the expert explains how the Russian president manages to manipulate his US counterpart, who has aligned his rhetoric and actions with the Kremlin’s interests.
Thom is convinced, based on the facts, that there is a link between the Trump administration’s desire to dismantle the federal state and Russia.
She adds: “It is said that Trump is sowing chaos in the United States. But there is a logic to this madness: most of the measures taken are in Moscow’s interests…
…Some members of the KGB and the GRU have never come to terms with the end of the Communist bloc and the break-up of the USSR, which they attributed to an American conspiracy. This hard-line core has found a theorist: Alexander Dugin”.
And the desire to dismantle the US federal state is confirmed – amongst many other initiatives – by a draft executive order from the Trump administration calling for a drastic overhaul of the State Department [the equivalent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs].
The aim of the executive order, which could be signed by President Trump this week, is to impose “a disciplined reorganisation” of the State Department and “streamline the delivery of missions” by reducing “waste, fraud and abuse”, according to a copy of the 16-page draft order obtained by the New York Times. The department is expected to implement the changes by 1 October.
The signing of the executive order would be accompanied by efforts to dismiss both career diplomats, known as Foreign Service officers, and civil service employees, who usually work at the department’s headquarters in Washington, said current and former US officials familiar with the plans. The department will begin placing a large number of staff on paid leave and issuing redundancy notices, they said.
This upheaval will weaken the US, depriving it of important strategic objectives (on this subject, read:Ukraine, Gaza and Africa linked by the same fate following Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID funding).
Read also:
The murky history of Roy Cohn, Trump’s first mentor on the TV programme ‘This Is Not America’
Below: ‘L’homme de Moscou’, according to Le Point, a conservative French weekly, February 2025.
