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Journalist Craig Unger talks Russia, Trump, and one of the greatest intelligence operations in history.
By Sean Illing@seanillingsean.illing@vox.com Updated Dec 7, 2018, 9:17am EST
On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a man named Vyacheslav Nikonov approached a microphone in the Russian State Duma (their equivalent of the US House of Representatives) and made a very unusual statement.
Dear friends, respected colleagues! Nikonov said. Three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections, and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America, and I congratulate you on this.
Nikonov is a leader in the pro-Putin United Russia Party and, incidentally, the grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov after whom the Molotov cocktail was named. His announcement that day was a clear signal that Trumps victory was, in fact, a victory for Putins Russia.
Longtime journalist Craig Unger opens his new book, House of Trump, House of Putin, with this anecdote. The book is an impressive attempt to gather up all the evidence we have of Trumps numerous connections to the Russian mafia and government and lay it all out in a clear, comprehensive narrative.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/9/12/17764132/trump-mueller-russia-mafia-putin-craig-unger
dalton99a
(81,443 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)trump's idiot son said they didn't need to worry about money because most of their financing came from Russians.
I should specify which idiot son: Eric.