Mother Jones reports on former spy who reveals that Donald Trump's connections to Russia and Vladimir Putin are even more troubling than we thought.

Courtesy of Mother Jones: 

In June, the former Western intelligence officer—who spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm that gathers information on Russia for corporate clients—was assigned the task of researching Trump's dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to the former spy and his associates in this American firm. This was for an opposition research project originally financed by a Republican client critical of the celebrity mogul. (Before the former spy was retained, the project's financing switched to a client allied with Democrats.) "It started off as a fairly general inquiry," says the former spook, who asks not to be identified. But when he dug into Trump, he notes, he came across troubling information indicating connections between Trump and the Russian government. According to his sources, he says, "there was an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit." 

This was, the former spy remarks, "an extraordinary situation." He regularly consults with US government agencies on Russian matters, and near the start of July on his own initiative—without the permission of the US company that hired him—he sent a report he had written for that firm to a contact at the FBI, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates, who asked not to be identified. (He declines to identify the FBI contact.) The former spy says he concluded that the information he had collected on Trump was "sufficiently serious" to share with the FBI. 

Mother Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officer's conversations with Russian sources, noted, "Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance." It maintained that Trump "and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals." It claimed that Russian intelligence had "compromised" Trump during his visits to Moscow and could "blackmail him." It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on "bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls."

The former intelligence officer also reports that the FBI responded with "shock and horror" at the information provided and asked for all of his info.

The former spy also claims that there is an ongoing investigation at the agency.

Now of course Trump supporters would undoubtedly dismiss this as a partisan hack job by a liberal media outlet, however it is only the latest in a long list of serious allegations about the connections between Trump and Russia.

And those now include news that the FBI is also investigating Trump's former campaign manager  Paul Manafort.

I have been sold on the fact that Putin is pulling Trump's strings for awhile now, and I think it only serves to underscore the importance of keeping his lunatic out of the White House. 

And the fact that the Republican party continues to support his candidacy just goes to prove that everything that they have claimed to be true about their party is just so much horse shit.