A Traitor Leads Us To Tyranny And Despotism Says Elizabeth Graham, Author Of Bestselling Book, From Democracy To Democrazy

WILMINGTON, NC, July 06, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ — Bestselling author Elizabeth Graham is an authority on the Trump/Putin relationship. Her articles have appeared worldwide, have been published on the websites of thousands of traditional media outlets and she writes a very popular Substack (egraham.substack.com) on topics relating to democracy, Russia, and U.S. politics.

Kirkus Professional Book Reviewers said: “Graham’s book is an intriguing and informative ‘must read’ from a woman who is probably the best-informed American on the terrifying realities concerning Vladimir Putin’s motivations and his control over Trump.”

In a recent substack post, she wrote in part:

I spent nearly twenty years in Russia, Central Asia, and Ukraine. In this process, I became bi-cultural – a Russian who also intimately saw the good and bad of both my homeland and of Russia.

Saturday, July 4th and the U.S. holiday to celebrate our independence will be remembered as a time when one of the greatest countries in the history of mankind has succumbed to the tyranny and despotism of one man and a small group who holds absolute and unrestricted power and who is controlled by our enemy.

The Roman civilization lasted 2,200 years from its inception. Toward the end of this historical period, Marcus Tullius Cicero (who lived from January 6, 106 BCE to December 7, 43 BCE) said: “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” Cicero is best known for uncovering a conspiracy against the Roman Republic in 63 BCE.

Our unsettling reality is that many Americans not only doubt Trump is a traitor but continue to dispute this claim indefinitely. Mark Twain, an American hero, had a “famously complex and humorous relationship with ignorance, and is widely attributed with the proverb: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It is what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

As many Republicans cling to the party rhetoric, they are unknowingly persuaded by propaganda techniques used 100 years ago in Russia. As Stalin persuasively convinced Russian farmers to give up their own farmland for communes in the 1920’s and 30’s, this same deed was repeated by Gorbachev in the late 1980’s using “perestroika” (restructuring) and “glasnost” (openness) to convince American Presidents Reagan and Bush that the Cold War ended. It was a hoax – a smokescreen that has deliberately led American un-worldly minds to now believe Donald Trump – a con man, a criminal, and a self-proclaimed religious prophet. His convicted crimes include business fraud – with rooms filled with financial evidence; 34 felony counts – a case where he attempted to cover up his payments (hush money) to a prostitute by burying them in his business accounting; and sexual assault – where evidence showed that he attacked E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room. Due to this last case, he is legally labeled a ‘sexual predator’.

America is now led by a convicted criminal and a traitor. He daily “rots the soul of our nation,” and his reign may end only with his demise. Those of us still clinging to ‘justice and the rule of law’ should know by now that Mr. Trump is well on his way to be our first dictator. He is quickly transforming our government into a reflection of how the Kremlin operates. I am among the few Americans who recognize this transformation. I know this because I lived it.

When the USSR/Russia realized it could not defeat the US militarily, it began in earnest a “disinformation and deception” campaign. Russia is the world’s foremost organized propaganda machine – a lavish “fake news” apparatus, and Vladimir Putin spent a lifetime learning to practice the art of deception.

Donald Trump sold his soul and our country to Russian-style graciousness, flattery, and promises of business. He also fell for beautiful Russian women – all who offer sex and work for the KGB/FSB. As foolish Americans go, he was at the top of the list and in a short period of time became the KGB’s top asset in the U.S. He thought he was invited to Moscow to search for sites to build a Trump hotel. Instead, he was invited, wined and dined, and then trapped. This was verified by Oleg Kalugin, a senior KGB operative in the U.S. for decades. (Interview with Craig Unger for American Kompromat).

My oldest daughter Lize was the bookkeeper at the Beverly Hills nightclub and casino in Moscow – it was owned by Russians but managed by Chuck Norris Enterprises. They provided underage prostitution to western men, and yes Trump visited. Photos were taken. Today, Donald Trump, responds to Putin’s wishes: (1) remove US troops from Germany, (2) kidnap Venezuela’s president, (3) a war in Iran resulting in the withdrawal of sanctions on Russia’s gas and oil, (4) a campaign to negate NATO, (4) the closure of USAID, and so on. All of these actions weaken the United States – financially and on the world political stage.

In my twenty years working on USAID multi-million-dollar awards in Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia, I was the senior manager responsible for contractual reporting. Such reports contained not just programming and spending information, but local demographic, political, and government facts. USAID was the US government source of intelligence information fed to the CIA from 130 countries masked as humanitarian aid. Putin knew this. USAID was also the organization that funded the democratic restructuring of the Russian Constitution. Putin, who controlled Russian banks, stole millions of dollars from this program that were later used to implement the newly formed Russian FSB – and used to plot against the United States and other NATO countries.

Elon Musk visited Moscow, and two weeks later USAID was closed. The Lancet and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have reported that approximately 22 million preventable deaths are predicted by 2030 directly due to the closing of USAID in Africa. The majority of these deaths are children. Both Musk and Rubio testified to Congress that “no child has died on their watch.” A LIE. Assuming this projected number is correct, this exceeds the savage number of bloodthirsty deaths caused by Stalin or Hitler. Please consider this carefully and pass these facts on to others. This deliberate murder of Black people is no different than when Hitler massacred Jews or when Stalin starved to death millions of souls primarily in Ukraine. Without provocation or remorse, Mr. Trump orchestrated the mass extermination of millions of people – for the sole reason that their skin is darker than his own.

When Putin was elected President of Russia in 2000, he was to legally serve one term of six years. Twenty-six years later he is still in control of this vast country and the Russian people. I will not be surprised when Trump attempts this same malicious deception in 2028. Trump orchestrated the attack on the US Capitol to prevent the legal processing of election results, and he has continually attempted to disrupt our voting processes.

Mr. Trump sold his soul and our country to Russia. When Trump was facing his 7th bankruptcy, the Russians bailed him out with depositing $100 million in the Trump Organization bank accounts. Both his elder sons have verified this. (www.vanityfair.com, www.businessinsider.com) Russian Organized Crime in the US earns $3 billion dollars annually from gambling and drug distribution. (The Guardian, Dec. 4, 2024). This money is laundered through cash transactions purchasing Trump condos worldwide. Trump receives a hefty fee. His net worth has increased by $2 billion in the last year alone. (Forbes, Sept. 9, 2025).

The full post is available at her Substack at https://egraham.substack.com

‘From Democracy To Democrazy: A Warning To All Americans’ has received rave reviews from readers and reviewers alike. One Amazon reader said, “From Democracy To Democrazy is an excellent book about the threat that Russia poses to America. This is an urgent warning; If you care about our country and the survival of our democracy, you should read this book ASAP because our government under the Trump administration is not on our side. Most Americans are so overwhelmed by the fire hose of distractions by Trump’s wars, schemes, and corruption that they aren’t aware of the ongoing collusion between Trump and Putin whose primary goal is to destroy America. The evidence described in this book by the author Ms. Graham is substantial. “

Another stated, “This book is a must read to understand how the President in name only is clearly tied to Putin’s world, Putin’s plan to destroy America from the inside out. It is not a hard book to read as the writing is plain and easy to read about personal and professional details of life in Russia doing brave and courageous work at a high level that helped women and non-profits and much more. To live and work under dictatorships for 20 years gave her an understanding like no other of what is happening to our country and is beyond anything else I’ve read.”

Clare Harwood, a publisher remarked: “Some books are written to entertain. Others are written because the author feels responsible for speaking. Democrazy is clearly the latter. . . Graham draws not from theory, but from lived experience in authoritarian and communist countries. . . When she writes about Donald Trump’s similarities to leaders she encountered overseas, it does not read as partisan commentary.”

More is available at https://substack.com/@elizabethgraham. Subscribe for $5/month at www.egraham.substack.com to receive Graham’s daily or weekly Substack messages which draw on her decades of experience in Russia.

All of this information and much more is available in Graham’s book, ‘From Democracy To Democrazy: A Warning To All Americans’, now available at Amazon, and more information is available at her website at https://democrazy2020.org/.

About Elizabeth Graham:

Elizabeth Graham lives in a quiet rural city in northern Arizona. She had 4 children and has 3 grandchildren. Her oldest daughter died July 16, 2016 – three months before the U.S. 2016 election and while living/working in Japan. The Tokyo Police ruled her death a homicide by an unknown substance – possibly a poison – which is the signature lethal method used by Russians. There is more about her death in From Democracy to Democrazy.

Elizabeth was indoctrinated at a young age by her father who was a senior manager working undercover with the CIA. Her college days were in Los Angeles with the desire to become a high school teacher. However, she was destined to study Russia, Russian language, and live a life of Top-Secret clearances and undercover work. This led to senior nonprofit management positions and consulting jobs in strategic places like Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia, all the former Soviet – Central Asian countries, and Ukraine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and many other locations. In this process of living and working abroad, she became bi-cultural – American to Russian and back – only to find that her birth country was in the process of losing its democracy and becoming a dictatorship.

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