Compiled 21 March 2025, updated 28 February 2026
Above Trump in Russia in 1987
Here is the synopsis, translated into Italian, of the book ‘Our Man in Washington’, published in France by Grasset
The book by Régis Genté was published , in October 2024, before the election of Donald Trump .On 5 November, Donald Trump will again be a candidate for the presidency of the United States. But it seems that the man has been under the influence of Moscow for decades. Will the first Western power soon be led by a president ‘held’ by a Russia in the middle of its rock with the West?
In the 1970s, the KGB noted that it was late in recruiting sources. In the US, it identified and then cultivated an ambitious and unscrupulous young real estate developer from New York: Donald Trump. An ideal target to make him an agent of influence, a goal probably achieved on a first trip to Moscow in 1987. On his return, Trump takes public positions criticising NATO, entirely along the Kremlin line.
The Russian services provide him with discreet but healthy financial support, through a phirt of Soviet mobsters, spies and oligarchs. All of them support Trump, often without the person’s understanding of the reasons for this concern. Whenever he approaches bankruptcy, generous mobsters buy flats in his Trump Towers or invest in his real estate projects. These hidden bailouts leave traces of Russian money, especially through the turbulent role of Deutsche Bank.
The incredible 2016 election campaign confirms the suspicion of the candidate’s accommodation with the Kremlin: members of his entourage in close contact with the Russians, dubious financing, $56 million worth of added value on the sale of his Palm Beach home to oligarch Dmitry Rybolev, hacking of thousands of emails by candidate Hillary Clinton, etc. Indeed, President Trump is conciliatory with Moscow: he flatters Putin, reiterates his will to annihilate NATO, takes illiberal positions … The current campaign is moving in the same direction, with Trump saying he is ready to stop supporting Ukraine.
Through strong documentary research and field interviews, Régis Genté examines the many clues that tend to show that Trump is the Russian man. With his election, Putin can hope to stop US support for Kiev. 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 Democratic West’s gravedigger.
Alexander Dugin, Putin’s philosopher puts Putin and Trump among the ‘good guys’ in his universe, close to the Church: ‘Globalists love perverts, illegal immigrants, Zelensky, LGBT, trans people, corruption lies, sin, Satan. They hate Christ, tradition, identity, patriotism, truth, the Church, Putin, Trump, family, health, truth, holiness. The globalists hate me and they hate everything I love. I count them out.”
The stages :
1977 : first KGB file on Trump
1984 : dealings with Robert Li Butti, a man of John Gotti, godfather of the Gambino clan for Atlantic City and – in Brigthon Beach – with Russian mobsters who had immigrated to the USA
1987 : In July of that year, Trump travels with Ivana, Ivanka’s mother, to Russia . He becomes a ‘confidential contact’ of the KGB. The friendship with the Russians is confirmed on trips in 1996, 2008 and 2013.
1987 onwards : exodus of KGB funds – billions of $ – from the USSR, which collapses in 1991. The secret services set up companies abroad, mainly in the USA.
in 1990 there were 600 companies
1993 : Trump is ‘taken care of’ by the KGB
1998 : Trump becomes a Deutsche Bank client.
In his bankruptcies high guarantees: who is behind it if not the Russians? Triangulations Kremlin (with companies abroad) – Deutsche- Trump (Deutsche hyper connected with Vnechtorg Bank (VTB).
2008 : Dimitri Rybolovlev – photo above – buys him a villa worth 41 million for $95 million, helping him in one of his many bankruptcies.
Oleg Deripaska, who had acquired a $3.6m flat in Trump Tower, was probably the direct line between Trump and the Kremlin(only to end up in disgrace).
In 2014 he declared that he wanted to ‘destroy NATO’ and ‘abandon Ukraine’.
2016 : Serguei Millian (below to the right of Donald T.) : Trump has received “hundreds of millions as a result of interactions with Russian businessmen.”
The same year, the Kremlin decided that he was its candidate, who could“sow chaos in American democracy and institutions” (those who had doubts about this see an episode of Atlantis by the late Andrea Purgatori).
“The goal of the Russians was to rot the American political system from within, by breaking the trust of the political regime, as the KGB has been doing for decades”.
All his men, Michael T. Flynn, Paul Manafort and Dimitri Simes were very close to Russian intelligence.
Trump has always criticised the federal administration, even going so far as to say that it represents the‘Deep State’, by which is meant – in conspiracy parlance – on a political level the set of those organisms, legal or not, which, thanks to their economic or military or strategic powers, condition the agenda of public objectives, secretly and irrespective of the political strategies of the world’s states, far from the eyes of public opinion) and “played with the fire of political, social, racial and religious divisions in his country” offering “Putin a unique opportunity to weaken the United States”.
“Trump is a blessing for Putin”.
In the first term Trump was simply blocked in his actions by his administration.
Now he has no obstacles.
I edited and translated the inverted commas and the summary. Below is a review from Le Monde. Below : Dugin’s ‘good guys’ include Musk, Trump, Kennedy, Vance, etc.
In an investigation that reads like a spy novel, the journalist shows that, for forty years, Soviet and then Russian intelligence services ‘cultivated’ the future president.
By Marie Jégo
Book. Is Donald Trump an agent of the Russians? Independent journalist Régis Genté asks this question in a lively and documented story that reads like an adventure novel. Thanks to an in-depth investigation, the book traces forty years of sulphurous relations between the American president and the Soviet Union, then Russia. A constant and not always very clear relationship, which the author describes as a form of collaboration, as the New York real estate developer has long been associating with Russian diplomats, spies, mafiosi and oligarchs.
Almost fifty members of the ‘red mafia’ have established direct or indirect relations with Donald Trump, explains Régis Genté. However, these red mafiosi never stopped cooperating with Soviet and then Russian 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 services],” Régis Genté describes. Among Donald Trump’s unsavoury associates is the mafia boss Vyacheslav Ivankov, known as ‘Yapontchik’ (‘the little Japanese guy’), who, until 2004, had his headquarters in Trump Tower, New York.
Although he was not recruited, the 47th president of the United States was approached by Soviet and then Russian intelligence services, which ‘cultivated’ him for a good forty years, lending him services and supporting him, it is a certainty. This fact has been confirmed by several officials from the US intelligence community met by the author.
Dirty money
Betting on Russia proved juicy for Donald Trump: between 2000 and 2016, the businessman, despite several bankruptcies, received several loans from Deutsche Bank and its partner, VTB, Russia’s second largest bank. Closely linked to Russian services, this bank led by Andrei Kostin, a former KGB officer close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, channelled dirty money to Donald Trump through Deutsche Bank. Régis Genté relies in particular on the investigation led by US special counsel Robert Mueller into suspicions of Kremlin interference in the 2016 presidential election campaign, which was eventually won by Donald Trump.
Three weeks after the 2016 election, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who had ambitions to reign over American diplomacy, met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak at Trump Tower. Trying to create a ‘secret’ channel of communication between the president-elect’s team and the Kremlin, he suggested the premises of the Russian embassy in Washington as a meeting place! The Kremlin drinks whey… and may 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 compliant America with Russia.
I will discuss the ideology underlying the MAGA project and that which drives Putin’s men in a future article.
But I can anticipate that Françoise Thom, a French historian and writer, sovietologist, lecturer in contemporary history at the Sorbonne in Paris, specialist in post-communist Russia, author of works and political analyses on that country and its leaders, says in Le Monde that “Trump’s list of favours to Moscow grows every day”.
The expert explains in an interview how the Russian president manages to manipulate his US counterpart, who has aligned his speech and actions with Kremlin interests.
Thom is convinced, facts in hand, that there is a link between the Trump administration’s desire to destroy the federal state and Russia.
He adds that: ” It is said that Trump is sowing chaos in the United States. But there is logic in this madness: most of the measures taken are in Moscow’s interest….
…Some members of the KGB and the GRU did not digest the end of the communist bloc and the break-up of the USSR, which they attributed to an American plot. This core of diehards found a theorist: Alexander Dugin‘.
And the will to break up the US federal state is confirmed – among many other initiatives – by a draft order of the Trump administration calling for a drastic overhaul of the State Department [equivalent of the Department of Foreign Affairs].
The purpose 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 mission delivery’ 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 make the changes by 1 October.
The signing of the executive order would be accompanied by efforts to lay off both career diplomats, known as foreign service officers, and civil service employees, who usually work in the department’s Washington headquarters, said current and former US officials familiar with the plans. The department will begin placing large numbers of workers on paid leave and sending out layoff notices, they said.
This disruption will weaken the US, depriving it of important strategic objectives (read: Ukraine, Gaza and Africa linked by the same fate with Donald Trump’s cutting of Usaid funds).
Read also :
The dark history of Roy Cohn, Trump’s first mentor on the TV show ‘This is not America’
Below : L’homme de Moscou, according to Le Point, French conservative weekly, February 2025.
