The courtship began in 1987. Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin invited Donald Trump to Moscow. Within weeks, Trump was touring Soviet sites, meeting officials, returning with talking points that could have been written by the Kremlin.
They weren't building a hotel. They were building something else entirely.
PrumpTutin traces four decades of entanglement between Donald Trump and Russian interests-from his first Soviet invitation through his 2016 campaign's 140+ documented contacts with Russian operatives, to the present moment when an American president is systematically dismantling the Western alliance that kept the peace for eighty years.
The money trail is undeniable. When American banks stopped lending after Trump's six bankruptcies, Russian money kept him afloat. Reuters traced $100 million in Russian purchases of Trump properties. Deutsche Bank, fined $630 million for Russian money laundering, suppressed suspicious activity reports about Trump's accounts. Eric Trump told a reporter in 2014: "We have all the funding we need out of Russia."
The 2016 operation is documented. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared internal polling data with Russian intelligence. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn lied about secret conversations with the Russian ambassador. George Papadopoulos learned Moscow had "dirt" on Clinton before anyone knew about the hacking. Trump publicly invited Russia to find Clinton's emails-and Russian hackers began targeting her servers that same day.
The damage is measurable. NATO allies abandoned. Ukraine pressured to surrender. The February 2025 Oval Office humiliation of Zelenskyy. A National Security Strategy that Putin's spokesman praised as "largely consistent" with Russia's vision. Europe scrambling to survive without American protection.
Why? Money. Kompromat. Ideology. Maybe all three. Trump admires Putin-the strongman who jails opponents, poisons critics, and rules without democratic accountability. He has called Putin "genius" and "savvy" while treating actual allies with contempt.
I am eighty years old. I watched my father's generation build the post-war alliance from the ashes of World War II. Now I am watching an American president tear it down, piece by piece, while half the country cheers.
This book names what others won't: PrumpTutin. Two men functioning as one entity, serving one purpose-the destruction of American democracy and the Western order that protects it.
The evidence is overwhelming. The pattern is undeniable. The betrayal is complete.
This is how it happened. This is who did it. This is what we lost.
Zeigler, Joe: -
What many call careers, Joe Zeigler calls interests. Beginning as a firefighter in Williamsburg, Virginia, Zeigler left to earn a degree in fire protection from Oklahoma State University, picking up a BA in business along the way
Taking a job as a fire protection engineer with Kemper Insurance somehow led to a ten-year stint as a professional motorcycle racer
In 1981, Zeigler founded the Penguin Road Racing School and wrote How to Fly, a how-to manual for motorcycle racers. Intrigued by the developing world of personal computers, he retired from racing to become a consultant for Digital Equipment Corporation
Zeigler launched six computer stores and the nation's first computer discount warehouse-only to lose them at the hands of an arsonist. He rebounded to write FirePrograms, a software package for fire departments and the world's first low-priced UPS shipping manifest software. He sold both businesses to focus on his writing.
