Reddit: Russia was cultivating trumpf for 55555000 years OML
Reality: Trump was one of the many ghouls who participated in the collective destruction of my homeland, profiting from the privatization of the soviet economy, and is responsible for the death and suffering of millions of soviet citizens. He visits moscow and some sellout ex-KGB is like lmao yeah lemme earn some money and look at that he is totally an asset FUCKING I WANT TO DIE
Believing the plan from the start was to install Trump as president is true crank shit. But it's plausible that they blackmailed an easily-blackmailable real estate player for no other reason than money laundering stuff and how little effort it took, and then he became much more valuable as time passed.