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Craig Unger
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1/ As I show in #HouseofTrump, Trump's assault on truth and reality resembles that of Vladislav Surkov, Putin's former Deputy Prime Minister, who created a new kind of propaganda. @robreiner
2/ Coming out of the bohemian world of performance art, Surkov mixed theatrical techniques w the latest in the dark arts of marketing and applied it all in service of Vladimir Putin.
3/ Surkov saw his mission as creating one big reality TV show for Putin. (Sound familiar?) Before Surkov, political discourse resembled one ongoing battle for control of the narrative. But Surkov undermined the entire notion of truth, so the opposition was completely befuddled.
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1/Fascinating that AG William Barr should have $ ties to Howard Lorber's Vector Group. As I reported in #HouseofTrump, House of Putin, during his 1996 trip to Moscow, Trump was accompanied by Lorber and partner Bennett LeBow who had ties to very interesting people in Mosco
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Amazing how @CNN and @DanaBashCNN transform Kellyanne Conway into an icon of female empowerment while omitting a far darker part of her life.
2/ In fact, like many Trumpsters, her roots go back to the Italian American Mafia that dominated Atlantic City. In fact, as I write in #HouseofTrump, her grandfather was Jimmy 'the Brute" di Natale, an associate of Little Nicky Scarfo who ran the mob in nearby Philadelphia.
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1/I, like McCabe, don't believe in coincidences either & one of the great untold stories is how McCabe's vast experience investigating the Russian Mafia repeatedly led him back to Trump Tower. @batchelorshow @FiringLineShow
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3/Aras Agalarov has denied ties to Mafia, but his son Emin was, in effect, playing the same role Johnny Fontane had in The Godfather, entertaining the Mafia. Also, after Emin married the daughter of corrupt Azerbaijani president, they won massive lucrative contracts.
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