This could be plausible given the nature of trump's persona, but one must also always consider the source and his potential motives since it's being used for a book?
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‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
