The Trump-Russia Story Gets Even Weirder
- 6 years ago
The Trump-Russia Story Gets Even Weirder
After joining the Trump campaign, Manafort emailed an intermediary, asking, apparently in reference to Deripaska, “How do we use to get whole?”
Navalny initially dismissed speculation that Deripaska had served as a back channel between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Vashukevich first came to the attention of close watchers of the Trump-Russia story last month, thanks to
a 25-minute video by Aleksei Navalny, a Russian dissident famed for exposing corruption in his country.
Seeing it, said Navalny, “the pieces of this puzzle fell into place.”
Within 24 hours of Navalny posting his investigation, a Russian court issued a ruling trying to block access to it.
Like many domestic opponents of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Navalny had regarded the American uproar over Trump’s Russia ties skeptically.
She is a Belarusian woman, a self-described “sex expert,” who is now in a Thai jail
and who claims, in a desperate Instagram video, to be the “the missing link in the connection between Russia and the U. S. elections.”
It sounds, of course, like an outrageous scam, and perhaps it is.
Rationality, he wrote, “was tuned out, and Kremlin-friendly cults
and hatemongers were put on prime time to keep the nation entranced, distracted, as ever more foreign hirelings would arrive to help the Kremlin and spread its vision to the world.”
We still don’t know the details of Donald Trump’s possible collusion with Russia,
but as a result of his election, the febrile atmosphere Pomerantsev described has spread to the United States.
After joining the Trump campaign, Manafort emailed an intermediary, asking, apparently in reference to Deripaska, “How do we use to get whole?”
Navalny initially dismissed speculation that Deripaska had served as a back channel between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Vashukevich first came to the attention of close watchers of the Trump-Russia story last month, thanks to
a 25-minute video by Aleksei Navalny, a Russian dissident famed for exposing corruption in his country.
Seeing it, said Navalny, “the pieces of this puzzle fell into place.”
Within 24 hours of Navalny posting his investigation, a Russian court issued a ruling trying to block access to it.
Like many domestic opponents of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Navalny had regarded the American uproar over Trump’s Russia ties skeptically.
She is a Belarusian woman, a self-described “sex expert,” who is now in a Thai jail
and who claims, in a desperate Instagram video, to be the “the missing link in the connection between Russia and the U. S. elections.”
It sounds, of course, like an outrageous scam, and perhaps it is.
Rationality, he wrote, “was tuned out, and Kremlin-friendly cults
and hatemongers were put on prime time to keep the nation entranced, distracted, as ever more foreign hirelings would arrive to help the Kremlin and spread its vision to the world.”
We still don’t know the details of Donald Trump’s possible collusion with Russia,
but as a result of his election, the febrile atmosphere Pomerantsev described has spread to the United States.