Left: Moscow State Professor Andrey Sushentsov. Right: Donald Trump hosts Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall in 2013
A Russian professor hailed in America and the EU as a global expert in US-Russian policy said in early October that Donald Trump would have to be a “real Russian agent” for the country’s Security Council to “decree” support for his Presidential campaign to Russian-language news source Kommersant:
"Can you imagine that the Russian Security Council decreed to support Donald Trump with hacking attacks?" the expert said, "I cannot - for that to happen Trump needs to be a real Russian agent, and there is no data to support that."
This literal translation of Professor Andrey Sushentsov’s comments to Kommersant is from a native-Russian speaker in the United States, who is a US citizen with a Masters-level college degree.
His expert opinion was reported then, without the kind of confirmation bias anyone would face in making an objective conclusion today, in light of overwhelming recent reports of Russia favoring Republican Donald Trump over the Democratic nominee in this year’s election coming from America’s intelligence community.
Professor Andrey Sushentsov’s wikipedia page lists him as an “Americanist” and leader of a foreign policy think tank called Valdai Club
The Moscow State professor works with Harvard and has visited Georgetown and John Hopkins Universities, and he holds a prestigious fellowship at the “Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focused on Russian policy toward Ukraine and the future of Russian-Ukrainian interdependence.”
His writing is published in on his consultancy group, the Foreign Policy Research Foundation and he is part of the European Leadership Network.
The Professor’s expert opinion, minus the qualifying statement of “no data to support that,” indicates what can only be described as a worst case scenario for America:
That a real Russian agent has won sufficient pledged electoral college votes to be elected as President of the United States.
Kommersant’s story on October 12th, 2016 was entitled: “The FBI is looking for Russian roots of the Wikileaks leaks” and subtitled, “The Democratic party again accuses Moscow of supporting Donald Trump.”
The Professor was clear that at the time, there was no data to support that conclusion publicly released, but since then both the FBI and CIA have said that they agree now.
America’s entire national security apparatus have come to the conclusion that Vladimir Putin helped Donald Trump get elected with his Wikileaks and cyber-hacking campaign.
Notably, last week President-elect attempted to gaslight the truth last week about the timing of allegations against him of undue foreign involvement.
Even this Russian report in October notes that the Democratic Party was in an uproar over the use of stolen emails to influence public opinion, and that uproar began shortly after Wikileaks began releasing Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s emails to much to the direct embarrassment of the Democratic nominee.
The Professor’s comment turned up originally in a story on Rusletter.com, which is a website which publishes, catalogues and indexes Russian language news, and had this translation of Sushentsov’s comments.
As you can see below, the implications are provocative, but it’s not translated by a person - it is a Google Translation - as most of that site’s information appears to be obtained.
A real recruited agent sounds worse, and does support the same conclusion based upon Professor Sushentsov’s conclusion.
"You can imagine that in the Russian Security Council decided to support the Donald Trump hacker attacks? I - no, - he said, "Kommersant" ekspert.- For this Trump must be a real recruited agent, and such data are not available. "
Google Translation of Kommersant story.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3114184