"There's a danger of our assets being compromised. Trump is too close to Putin. Within the (Security) Service, he's regarded as a possible agent of influence."
The Mueller Report uncovered widespread interference in the 2016 election by Russia but couldn't find the smoking gun to link the Trump campaign to their agents. He's good at covering his tracks, i'll give him that. His General's, however, wrote a letter at the end of his first term (
NBCnews.com) made it clear they didn't trust their C-i-C, either.
According to Trump's own account of his connections to Russian security services is in his own words, in 'The Art of the Deal' where he tells of an invitation to Moscow from the Soviet Ambassador, Yuri Dubinin, to discuss building a hotel in Red Square, at a time when Soviet Intelligence was making a concerted effort to compromise and recruit Western businessmen. Three former KGB officers have claimed this was the moment he was successfully turned into a russian asset. No documented evidence is available, of course, but on his return from that trip Trump did an unusual thing.
Having shown no interest in foregin affairs up to that time, he spent $94,000 on three full page adverts in the NYT, Washington Post and Boston Globe, declaring 'why America should stop paying to defend countries tha can afford to defend themselves.' Directly after these ad's appeared he went on tv and said "if you're looking at the payments we're making to NATO, they're totally disproportionate to everyone else...and it's ridiculous." This brought about speculation he was going to enter the 1988 presidential election but instead he focussed on building up his real estate empire with the help of several Russian contacts.
The Mueller Report concluded the meeting with the Russian 'lobbyists' on June 9th, 2016, did not constitute a criminal conspiracy but in light of his statement after the trip to Russia in 1987 and subsequent statments about NATO, and his favourable stance towards Putin, the president of our most powerful ally should be viewed in a new light. At the Republican Convention last July, his foreign policy advisor opposed an amendment to the party's foreign policy platform that advocated sending arms to Ukraine and condemning Russian aggression in Donetsk and Luhansk: more significantly, Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, continued to develop what came to be known as 'the Mariupol Plan', a peace deal that would've annexed Eastern Ukraine with no say in the matter by Kyiv. He did so in conjunction with a long standing contact, Konstantin Kilimnik, an active Russian Intelligence officer.
Trump has gone so far the official Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, announced recently; "The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision." Ukraine cannot expect fair treatment from their most important ally. NATO cannot trust its most powerful member and the UK cannot even trust a long standing partner with sharing military or state secrets anymore.