A book by Craig Unger claims the KGB began grooming 'young and vain' Donald Trump 40 years.

A book by Craig Unger claims the KGB began grooming 'young and vain' Donald Trump 40 years.

This article is based on article written by Caroline Howe for dailymail.com 

Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset more than 40 years ago which exploded into a decades-long 'relationship' of mutual benefit to both Russia and Trump, a shocking new book claims.

Trump was rescued multiple times from multiple bankruptcies by boatloads of Russian cash laundered through his real estate in the 80s and 90s, the author asserts. Russian money also picked up the tab for buildings franchised under Trump's name.

An invitation to Russia by a high-level KGB official in 1987 under the guise of a preliminary scouting trip to build a Trump hotel in Moscow, was in fact 'deep development' by KGB handlers that furthered creating secret back channels and allowed the Russians to influence and damage American democracy, the author claims.

When Trump became President, it was time to pay the piper and Trump gave Putin everything he wanted, the author writes.

Asking if Trump was a Russian asset is the single most important question about the president, the author writes after extensive interviews with high-level sources, Soviets who defected, former CIA officers, FBI counter-intelligent agents, lawyers and more.

'This is a story of dirty secrets and the most powerful people in the world' and Unger reveals what went wrong in the numerous congressional investigations into Trump.

Trump and the Russians were also in bed together through Trump's close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, who was supplying the Russians and Silicon Valley with underage girls, the author claims. 

Trump’s ties to Russia began in 1976 when he moved from Queens real estate to Manhattan. He bought the rundown Commodore Hotel and transformed it into the Grand Hyatt New York. During the renovation, Trump purchased TVs from Joy-Lud Electronics, a store catering to Soviet diplomats and KGB officers. Co-owned by Ukrainian émigré Semyon Kislin, Joy-Lud specialized in PAL-adapted electronics for the Soviet market. Trump took the TVs on credit and unusually paid back within 30 days.Trump probably also appealed to the KGB because he was 'vain, narcissistic, highly susceptible to flattery and greedy'.

The file on Trump with the Soviet/Russian intelligence went from laundering money through Trump luxury condos, to partnering with wealthy Soviet émigrés in franchising scams, to becoming involved in countless financial irregularities, to creating secret back channels with the Russians, to partying with Jeffrey Epstein, and on and on,' writes Unger.

Epstein owned fabulous homes around the world and lived two short miles from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Within his house there were scores of women and young girls, dozens in their teens who were passed around like party favors by Epstein to the world's most powerful men.

'All the while, he was secretly recording their activities, the tapes of which provided a hammerlock of kompromat, leverage, and influence', Unger writes.

Billionaire oligarchs shipped in teenage girls from Russia and the Ukraine. Russian models and beauty pageant contestants were flown in to Mar-a-Lago for a calendar girl competition and the only two males guests were Trump and Epstein. Trump's name was in Epstein's black book with no fewer than 16 phone numbers. Epstein claimed he was the one who introduced Melania to Trump.

'Jeffrey and Ghislaine knew Trump's secrets, and he knew theirs – secrets were the ultimate currency in the decadent and highly transactional world they lived in,' the author writes. 

After three years into Trump's presidency, the curtain was pulled back and revealed 'Trump was a sociopath who had given false or misleading statements more than 20,000 times while in office and created false narratives that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election on Trump's behalf.'

'The Russians had undermined the US elections in 2016 and Trump had collaborated with them', writes Unger. And now everything wrong with the United States – sex trafficking, racism and greed - was visible.