Daily Beast Story About Spy Chief Allegations Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987 is disappearing from the internet.

www.dailykos.com Magic Disappearing DB Story About Spy Chief Allegations Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987.

So earlier today, the Daily Beast’s Isabel van Brugen published a bombshell story about allegations by Kazakh Spy Chief Alnur Mussayev that the KGB had recruited Donald Trump as a Soviet Asset way back in 1987 under the code name “Krasnov.” I expected...

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.

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The article is still available through the internet archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250221153932/https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-intelligence-officer-alnur-mussayev-claims-kgb-recruited-donald-trump-under-codename-krasnov/

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

I opened up my browser and this showed up on the News at Lemmy.world. I signed in and it disappeared. I went through the process again and it happened again, but I opened it while I wasn't signed in. That is why I'm reposting it. BTW, I'm a subscriber of the news at Lemmy.World.
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Edit: Everything seems to be showing up properly now, signed in or not. Yay?