Apr 15, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not impressed with the idea that former Vice President Joe Biden is considering a run for president in 2020.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not impressed with the idea that former Vice President Joe Biden is considering a run for president in 2020.
For more than a year now, journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn have been devoted to covering the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
Isikoff was the first reporter to reveal that there was a U.S. intelligence investigation into Russian ties to a figure in the Trump campaign — Carter Page. Corn was the first to reveal the existence of the infamous Russia dossier, the unverified collection of reports alleging connections between the Trump campaign and Russia compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
Now, in their new book, Russian Roulette, the two men attempt to put all the pieces of the story together. Check out their conversation with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross here.
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'Russian Roulette' Authors Seek To Connect The Dots Between Trump And Putin
For more than a year now, journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn have been devoted to covering the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
Isikoff was the first reporter to reveal that there was a U.S. intelligence investigation into Russian ties to a figure in the Trump campaign — Carter Page. Corn was the first to reveal the existence of the infamous Russia dossier, the unverified collection of reports alleging connections between the Trump campaign and Russia compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
Now, in their new book, Russian Roulette, the two men attempt to put all the pieces of the story together.
"We start the book with Donald Trump's trip to Moscow in 2013, when he really first forms this 'bromance' with Vladimir Putin," Isikoff says.
Isikoff notes that Trump's 2013 trip to Russia for the Miss Universe pageant centered on a business deal: "He signed a letter of intent to build a Trump Tower in Moscow with a Putin-connected oligarch, Aras Agalarov."
In 2016, Agalarov would later be one of the conduits for what was described to Donald Trump Jr. as an offer of help to the Trump campaign by the Russian government.
The earlier potential deal for the Moscow Trump Tower fell through, Isikoff says, after the Obama administration and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia following the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine.
But Corn says that the stalled deal may help explain other elements of the story: "People have been trying to figure out for years the positive remarks that Donald Trump has made about Vladimir Putin ... It's almost hiding in plain sight that one reason he has for saying all these kind things about Putin is that he was always interested in doing business deals there."
For those keeping score at home, a little "me-ah culpable" from the lame-stream media. Guess the story about Hunter's laptop had more legs then they wanted to admit.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham is working to declassify a document that would prove the FBI knew that the anti-Trump dossier used to obtain a FISA warrant for Carter Page …
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Bharara never learned why Trump was calling. “That's bullshit…. Bharara also said the “wacko” nature of Trump’s presidency has not dissipated. The man lies. “The president’s different from everyone else,” he said.
'Undercuts almost everything that was in the dossier'
From the article:
“The two journalists most closely linked to the Steele dossier acknowledged Monday that the Democrat-funded document was debunked by the Mueller investigation, which found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
‘I think one of the reasons people were so surprised by the Mueller finding is that it undercuts almost everything that was in the dossier, which postulated a well-developed conspiracy between the Russians and the Trump campaign,’ Michael Isikoff, a reporter for Yahoo! News, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. (RELATED: 7 Collusion Theories That Died With The Mueller Report)
‘That’s what got people worked up initially, and we do have to acknowledge that that which was alleged has not panned out.’ Isikoff was joined by David Corn, a reporter at Mother Jones. Isikoff and Corn, who co-wrote the book “Russian Roulette,” are two of a small handful of reporters who met with dossier author Christopher Steele prior to the 2016 election.They both wrote articles for their respective outlets touting Steele’s allegations that Trump associates conspired with Russians to influence the election.”
Early Steele dossier advocate now says document's most sensational charges are 'likely false'
Early Steele dossier advocate now says document’s most sensational charges are ‘likely false’
Yahoo News‘ Michael Isikoff was the first Washington journalists to write about and push wild allegations against then-GOP nominee Donald Trump contained in the infamous “Steele dossier,” but he now says the lack of evidence in the years since it was publicized mean they were “likely false.”
As Election Day drew close in September 2016, Isikoff wrote about Steele’s memos, focusing principally…
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