I expected to see this story covered heavily here, but nary a peep, and within hours, it was scrubbed from both the Daily Beast’s site, as well as various other outlets on the internet. There is no retraction on the Daily Beast site, or even any acknowledgment that the story existed, and several republishers have pulled the story as well.
If you go to Google news and search “Trump Krasnov,” you may still find a couple of sites where the story, either in the van Brugen version, or under other bylines, is still up, but they are dropping like flies.
It sounds truthy enough, but there’s nothing to validate it. It’s equally possible (or rather I’m almost certain) that this is Russian propaganda designed to split the USA even more. I wouldn’t pay much attention to this right now.
That said, he keeps playing into Russian talking points as if he were Dimitri Medvedev himself
https://sh.itjust.works/post/33277983