A former Soviet intelligence officer made the claim in a Facebook post, which the Daily Beast briefly published overnight Saturday The post The Daily Beast Publishes, Then Deletes Story Alleging Trump Was Recruited by Soviet Spies appeared first on TheWrap.
It looks like the Wayback Machine archive of the original article is down now too, presumably at the request of The Daily Beast… :(
Nah, it’s just a bit slow at the moment. I just checked it again and it’s available:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250221153932/https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-intelligence-officer-alnur-mussayev-claims-kgb-recruited-donald-trump-under-codename-krasnov/
There are different versions of the article up there!