The "Trump is a Russian asset" conspiracy theory is popular in BlueAnon circles but it really doesn't fit the facts.
A good example is the first Trump administration's opposition to Russian energy expansion in Europe because this would make Europe vulnerable to Russian influence. Trump opposed NordSream 2, for example. In 2018, Trump basically bullied Germany into building an LNG port [1].
Now Trump's energy policy as a whole was generally a disaster, which led up to the 2020 OPEC deal that basically caused Covid iflation but on the security of European energy, the Trump administration was correct and was proven so by the Ukraine invasion and the cutoff of Russian energy.
Trump idolizes strongmen and autocrats. It doesn't matter who. Putin. Kim Jong-Un, Victor Orban. Trump backs fascist political movements like AfD, Reform (UK) and National Front (France).
> The Nord Stream 2 pipeline went from zero to 90 percent completed during Trump’s presidency. The Trump administration rejected years of bipartisan congressional calls for imposition of sanctions to stop the project. Only when Congress, in frustration, passed mandatory sanctions they couldn't stop did the administration finally take concrete action. But by then it was too late.
> Trump’s first secretary of State Rex Tillerson was a 2013 recipient of an “Order of Friendship” from Putin in recognition of Tillerson’s contributions to cooperation with the Russian energy sector while he was CEO of Exxon-Mobil. Tillerson issued the fateful public guidance to energy companies that CAATSA sanctions would only apply to new Russian export pipelines — those contracted after August 2017. Contrary to the will of Congress, Nord Stream 2 was thus grandfathered in and outside the scope of sanctions.
> Under the Tillerson guidance, the five EU companies participating in Nord Stream 2 with Gazprom had no legal grounds to declare force majeure, and the project went forward at a rapid pace.
> But where it counted — actually imposing sanctions against the project at the key stage when it could be stopped — the administration did nothing. Indeed, Trump’s posture amounted to the worst of both words: alienating our German allies while failing to take action to stop the pipeline.
> As the Biden administration took office in 2021, Russian vessels were laying pipe for the final segments of Nord Stream 2. While U.S. sanctions in 2017 would have killed the project, by 2021 it was a fait accompli. The Biden administration denounced Nord Stream 2 as a “bad deal” and a danger to European energy security. But given the unlikelihood of stopping it at this stage and the need to rebuild relations with Germany shredded under Trump, the administration elected to waive sanctions.
When literally everything he does it to the benefit of Russia, "Trump being a Russian asset" isn't a conspiracy theory, it's called "barely paying attention".
Not the American government. Trump. They compromised the guy on top who established complete control over a party.
Depressingly simple.