Putin’s Agent: Was Trump Recruited by the KGB?

Lech Wałęsa condemns Donald Trump’s treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The U.S. president is, in fact, behaving like an agent of the Russian Committee for State Security. Some are speculating again whether he might actually be one.

Lech Wałęsa already holds what Donald Trump would love to have: a Nobel Peace Prize. Unlike Trump, he risked his life and limb in a workers’ strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and as the leader of the Solidarity movement during Communist rule in Poland. Trump may be risking disproportionately more now, namely Europe’s territorial integrity, but that has nothing to do with his life or limbs.

As Wałęsa has just written in an open letter on Facebook, he and some 30 other signatories, almost all former political prisoners from Poland, are following Trump and JD Vance’s humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last Friday in the Oval Office “with horror and distaste.” They demanded that Zelenskyy show gratitude. But “Gratitude,” Wałęsa writes, “is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defense of the values of the free world.”

In Poland, as in the Baltic states, there has been particularly sensitive reaction to the crumbling of the West (however, with less surprise than in Germany). Although Heinrich August Winkler is completely correct to fear “the United States’ official recognition of the results of Russian aggression” on Ukraine’s behalf, Poland and the Baltic states have already had that experience. The Potsdam Agreement of 1945 was interpreted as nothing less than the Western allies’ blessing of Stalin’s share of the booty from the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact. There will be renewed talk of that on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.

Wałęsa’s open letter also says that Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office reminded him of the interrogation methods of communist intelligence agencies and show trials. Ten days ago, former Soviet KGB officer Alnur Mussayev of Kazakhstan claimed tha Trump was recruited as a KGB asset during his travels to Moscow and Leningrad and was pushed into politics. He was referred to in the files by the code name “Krasnov,” Mussayev claimed.

It may be that no one really believes Mussayev, who is a shady character himself. But, as the Protestant hymn for this week marking the beginning of Lent says, “In no one’s heart can one see, from his works a man will be revealed.” And Trump’s works expose him outright as an agent of Putin. He is not a man of peace.