Disinformation has always been an important weapon of Russia’s KGB and its successor institutions. Calder Walton, in his excellent book Spies: The Epic Intelligence War between East and West, provides this list of the goals of Russian disinformation campaigns conducted against the United States: 

“… to discredit its government, 

delegitimize its institutions, 

disorient or polarize its society, 

and cast doubts on the true account of events. 

undermine the U.S. government’s functioning as a democracy, 

as well as discrediting Western alliances like NATO.”

No Russian spy or mole hidden in the intelligence community has done more than Donald Trump to achieve all of these goals. It does not matter whether he has attacked America and its institutions at the bidding of Putin & Co. or simply because he envies and disdains democracy and the rule of law. The catastrophic results of his disinformation campaigns are the same.

He is a Russian mole planted in the midst of American politics.