Author of six books on GOP war on democracy, including three NYT bestsellers. My latest: Den of Spies, on the 1980 October Surprise.

Shelter Island, New York
1/ Last month I told a room of Baltic intelligence officers and diplomats that Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence. Not one of them blinked. "Of course," they said. Ho hum. But in America, saying it out loud is still taboo. Why? 🧵
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Hoe kun je tegen het berechten van de allerergste misdrijven zijn? Handen af van het ICC en alle andere instituties die de internationale rechtsorde beschermen.
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Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/tr…
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1/ Per @ProPublica last week, Putin-linked Russian oligarch, Umar Kremlev, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding celebrations. But this is all part a pattern dating back more than 40 yrs when Russia began cultivating Donald Trump as an intelligence asset. For the US, it's one of the greatest intel failures in history.
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Imagine this murderer of little Palestinian children having the fucking audacity of trying to lecture anyone on morality. Put him behind bars UNDER the prison and lose the key. Hell is too good for him.
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Susan Collins got caught trading favors for cash. She wasn't "cleared." All the investigators into her case were fired by Trump.
ProPublica Has the Emails: The Evidence Susan Collins Tried to Hide As ProPublica reported, the FBI was assembling a sweeping bribery case against Susan Collins over an alleged pay-to-play racket: trading federal defense contracts for campaign cash. That probe was killed after corrupt conman Trump slithered back into office in 2025.
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A vote for Le Pen is a vote for Putin
Je vous rappelle que la Russie est une puissance nucléaire. Je sais bien que dans les salons parisiens, les petits marquis expliquent qu’il faut faire la guerre à la Russie. Moi, pour ma part, je ne souhaite faire la guerre à aucune puissance nucléaire.
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🚨 A federal judge just threatened AG Todd Blanche with civil contempt by today for withholding handwritten FBI interview notes from the Epstein files. The coverup is breaking. Demand Congress subpoena the unredacted files now: #BlueWaveIn40Days actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
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This is a huge NYT investigation into how Russia uses shell companies and Tether, a crypto coin, to evade sanctions and buy arms. What it doesn't mention is that the main U.S. backer of Tether is Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Howard Lutnick's sons. nytimes.com/2026/09/24/busin…
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1/ I just sent the complete Trump Russia Timeline to my full subscriber list--all 39 parts, finally in every inbox. If you're subscribed and didn't get it, let me know.
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3/ This is the same pattern that's been running since 1980: money moving from Kremlin-adjacent sources to the Trump family, dressed up as friendship or coincidence. @AnneApplebaum @TimothyDSnyder
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4/4/ The complete Timeline, chronologically assembled for the first time: craigunger.substack.com/p/th… @IamAliVelshi @juliaioffe
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In a way, Putin spared me that. For this, at least, I thank him. Follow me for more on Putin and his system. [12/12]
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The Georgian oligarchs who have undermined democracy, stolen elections and dragged Georgia country towards Russia now have a new business partner: the Trump family wsj.com/politics/policy/the-…
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This is truly a great man. He has invested more in Ukraine than 185 countries combined. Meet Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels. Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion. Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times. In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery and called the president of John Deere: “How many combines are available in Europe?” “Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.” “I’ll take them all.” Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines were provided to Ukrainian farmers. He even tested demining equipment himself - on his own farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When a Ukrainian deputy minister expressed doubts, Buffett told him: “Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.” Andriy Stavnitser initially asked him for $1 million for Superhumans. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center. “$14 million.” “Okay. And what do you expect in return?” “Nothing. Build it.” Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated more than 1,700 patients. But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics. It is food: 642 million meals. And that is only part of it: * 344,000 windows replaced after Russian attacks; * 9 bridges, 4 power plants, 2,500 generators, and 18 DNA laboratories; * Much of Bucha rebuilt with his funding. “I already have more friends in Ukraine than I do at home,” he says. He celebrates birthdays in Ukraine, comes for Christmas, and even has a Ukrainian godson. Friends, this is truly a great man - someone who understands that he cannot take all his money with him when he leaves this world. I simply want to thank him and wish him well. Whatever else one may say, this is real help from a person who had no personal obligation to Ukraine. He simply chose to help. Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.
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1/ Per @ProPublica last week, Putin-linked Russian oligarch, Umar Kremlev, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding celebrations. But this is all part a pattern dating back more than 40 yrs when Russia began cultivating Donald Trump as an intelligence asset. For the US, it's one of the greatest intel failures in history.
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4/Next, hundreds of millions in Russian money flow thru Trump-branded buildings(Trump SoHo, Toronto, Panama, Baku, South Florida). @stuartpstevens @SpyTalker
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5/ Kremlev's gift isn't a departure. It's the latest entry. Congressional Democrats have opened an inquiry, and the money trail is where it gets concrete. Parts 1-5 are free; the rest is for paid subscribers.
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