How Trump Could End Up Double Crossing Putin In Ukraine's Favour

Don't be surprised if the incoming President takes the opportunity to bury his long complicity with the Russian demagogue through a staggering act of betrayal

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“Few people who knew Trump had illusions about him. That was almost his appeal: he was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul.”― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

Last week, an American President was eulogized. The same American President who said that “Donald Trump was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.” The same President who warned of catastrophic climate change more than half a century ago. And the same President who lost his bid for re-election because of crimes committed by GOP operatives.

Jimmy Carter was a beloved public servant.

Donald Trump is a con man and a convicted felon.

Due to the invisible war – the Great Information War – millions of voters still don’t know how hard the Russians worked to get their man into the White House and how, for Putin, Donald Trump is just another Viktor Yanukovych indebted to the Kremlin.

With the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, vying for the role of acting President and incoming VP JD Vance being the ingénue of choice for the technocracy, Trump has to watch his back 24/7.

He’s been in bed with the Russian mob since the 1980s, as investigative reporter and author Craig Unger has documented in multiple books. And as President Carter said back in 2019, the Russians under Putin did indeed interfere on Trump’s behalf in 2016.

So in this gangster’s paradise, what’s an out-of-work actor larping as a politician to do to ensure longevity?

The double cross.