Horowitz reminded us, today that in 2016 the FBI had agents who were pro T rump

You mean with Gingrich?, or the Tea Party?

That’s because those are the only threads you bother to notice. Broaden your horizons:


You might have a point there and yes the “Overton Window” is a thing, but you’re still missing the substance of the MAGA movement - an Overton Window on steroids, and it still remains that: Trump couldn’t have been done it without the Putin the KGB’s’s attentive grooming and support, and their digital bull horn of focused, tactical and strategic online deception.

it was around years before Trump’s campaign started

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/piling-up-incriminating-information-about-trumps-russian-connections/2021/01/28/a0b53b80-5029-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

American Kompromat a summary:

By Craig Unger

How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery

Key ideas in American Kompromat

Introduction

The KGB had established contact with Donald Trump by 1980.

The KGB exploited Trump’s personality and desires.

Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation produced endless streams of kompromat.

The Catholic sect Opus Dei successfully infiltrated the US government.

William Barr’s authoritarian ideals helped expand Trump’s power.

Trump wielded executive power that greatly served Vladimir Putin.

Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States: What the Research Says

RACHEL KLEINFELD

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