How Collusion with Russia Helped Donald Trump Become US President
On February 16, the Justice Department indicted thirteen Russians for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. Donald J. Trump was elected with the slightest of margins in the electoral college, while losing the popular vote by 2.9 million. The fundamental question is if he won thanks to collusion with the Kremlin.
Luke Harding, the Guardian’s veteran correspondent in Moscow, who was expelled by the Kremlin in 2011, has written an extraordinary investigation of this drama, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win (Vintage Press).
Harding is probably the most qualified person for this kind of investigation. Apart from his extensive reporting for the Guardian, he has written books about Wikileaks, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by the FSB in London, the Snowden files, and the Russian mafia state. In elegant prose, he goes through the many accusations against Trump and his company for having colluded with the Kremlin.
Harding leaves little doubt: It was collusion. He presents an overwhelming number of connections between Trump and his close associates with Russian intelligence and organized crime, and he digs into all of them with hard evidence. Initially, Trump and his associates denied it all, but since they had to admit their many meetings with Russians, their guilt appears all the more evident................
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Luke Harding, the Guardian’s veteran correspondent in Moscow, who was expelled by the Kremlin in 2011, has written an extraordinary investigation of this drama, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win (Vintage Press).
Harding is probably the most qualified person for this kind of investigation. Apart from his extensive reporting for the Guardian, he has written books about Wikileaks, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by the FSB in London, the Snowden files, and the Russian mafia state. In elegant prose, he goes through the many accusations against Trump and his company for having colluded with the Kremlin.
Harding leaves little doubt: It was collusion. He presents an overwhelming number of connections between Trump and his close associates with Russian intelligence and organized crime, and he digs into all of them with hard evidence. Initially, Trump and his associates denied it all, but since they had to admit their many meetings with Russians, their guilt appears all the more evident................
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