If You Can't See That Trump Is a Russian Asset By Now, There Really Is No Helping You
- john raymond
- Sep 9
- 3 min read
There are moments when history rips away every pretense and forces us to look at the truth unblinking. The cruel and unusual deportation of Russian dissidents by the Trump Administration is such a moment.
Dissidents who fled Putin’s dungeons, who crossed oceans to escape the FSB’s claws, were seized by American agents, shackled, flown halfway across the world, and delivered directly into the hands of the Kremlin. If you cannot see what that means—if you cannot see who Trump is—then there is no helping you.
This is not “bad optics.” This is not “misguided policy.” This is the naked act of a man serving his master. A Russian dictator asked for his enemies back, and Trump gave them to him. America became Putin’s bailiff. ICE became his enforcers. The land that once called itself a beacon of freedom turned into a courier service for tyranny.
For years the apologists told us Trump was only reckless, only ignorant, only undisciplined. They told us he was a nationalist who sometimes blundered into Russia’s arms. That lie now collapses.
A man who takes the persecuted, men and women who placed their lives in America’s hands, and casts them back to the executioner’s block, is not “incompetent.” He is owned. He is compromised. He is a Russian asset executing on Russian instructions.
Look at the pattern: every move of consequence redounds to Putin’s benefit. Trump weakens NATO. Trump delays weapons for Ukraine. Trump smears Volodymyr Zelenskyy while flattering Putin’s vanity.
And now, in the most grotesque act yet, Trump has weaponized American immigration policy to secure regime survival for the Kremlin. The line runs straight and unbroken to the tarmac in Cairo where dissidents were forced onto Moscow-bound planes.
Do not tell me this is about “toughness on immigration.” Deporting political refugees into the arms of their torturers is not toughness; it is treachery. It is betrayal of asylum law, betrayal of America’s covenant with the persecuted, betrayal of every freedom fighter who once looked to this republic as sanctuary.
Pillar One tells us regime security is the prime directive. For Putin, that means neutralizing dissidents. For Trump, it means staying in Putin’s good graces, because Putin’s kompromat is the sword suspended above his head.
Pillar Two tells us to read this as asymmetric warfare: not tanks on the border, but the corrosion of America’s moral standing. Trump did not need to fire a shot; he only had to make the Statue of Liberty look like a grinning mask, hiding the machinery of rendition.
Pillar Three reminds us that the traitor-general never comes in the enemy’s uniform. He comes in our own. Trump wraps himself in the flag even as he sends refugees to their doom, because he knows the disguise of patriotism is the surest cloak for treason.
So let me say it plainly: if you still cannot see that Trump is a Russian asset, you are choosing blindness. You are closing your eyes as human beings are handed over to their executioners. You are refusing to recognize the stench of betrayal rising from your own government’s hands.
The question now is not whether Trump is compromised. That has been answered in blood, in chains, and in the cries of those shoved onto Moscow-bound flights. The question is whether America still possesses the courage to call treason by its name and act accordingly.
Because if we will not, then the promise that this nation once made to the oppressed of the earth is already broken.
And if you cannot see who Trump is after this—Putin’s man, bought and delivered—there really is no helping you.
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