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The New Republic
April 21, 2022
Why Is CPAC Having a Conference Next Month in Budapest?
Now that Vladimir Putin has become increasingly isolated, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the new conduit to the West for Putin-style authoritarianism and corruption.
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The New Republic
March 18, 2022
How Republicans Spent Decades Cozying Up to Putin’s Kremlin
Going back to the ‘90s, Russian operatives began to build a secret influence campaign with the Republicans, working with K Street lobbyists, super PACs, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, cyber-warfare operations, money laundering schemes, think tanks harboring Russian intelligence operatives, and much, much more. Even Jewish space lasers.
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The New Republic
March 2, 2022
Donald Trump Was Everything Vladimir Putin Could Have Wished For
From the days when the KGB sought to cultivate him 40 years ago to his term as president, Trump was a useful stooge. And if he gets another term, he still can be.
MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty Images
The Independent (UK)
October 18, 2021
Colin Powell sold America on the Iraq War – why are we so reluctant to acknowledge his faults?
The Latin dictum about not speaking ill of the dead has its place, of course, but maybe we should draw the line at falsifying or distorting history.
A case in point involves the death of Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and secretary of state of the United States, and calls to mind his role in starting the Iraq War.
SpyTalk: How the KGB Hooked Trump
January 26, 2021
'American Kompromat,' a new book by Craig Unger, gets the lowdown from former Russian and U.S. spies.
WAS DONALD TRUMP a Russian asset? Just how compromised was he? And how could such an audacious feat have been accomplished? Based on extensive, exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—Soviets who resigned from the KGB and moved to the United States, former officers and agents in the CIA and FBI, lawyers at white-shoe Washington firms—and an analysis of thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian, veteran investigative reporter Craig Unger’s American Kompromat unearths the unsettling facts behind the theories of Trump’s compromise by the Kremlin. It’s a story that should rattle anyone who cares about the future of democracy in America. (paywall)
The Washington Post
Trump’s businesses are full of dirty Russian money. The scandal is that it’s legal.
Shell companies put figures from Putin’s Mafia into Trump Tower. Should that be worrying?
Richard Drew/AP
The New Republic
July13, 2017
Trump’s Russian Laundromat
How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.
