During a closed session of Russia’s national security council, Vladimir Putin
personally authorized a secret, multi-agency spy operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election, leaked Kremlin documents appear to show.
The Russian president, his spy chiefs and senior ministers agreed in January 2016 that the “social turmoil” of a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives.
- The papers include a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”.
- Independent experts say these papers appear to be genuine, while the Kremlin denied all allegations.