A couple nights ago, something very strange happened. I was in a Midtown sports bar when in walked a group of the MAGA inner circle, post-MSG rally. They introduced themselves to myself and a friend (we were almost alone in the bar). What happened next was utterly mad. 🧵
First, let’s just say these people had been enjoying themselves. A lot of wide eyes and gurning. Which combined with suits and TV makeup makes for quite the image. They were desperate to party & ask our thoughts on ‘The Big Guy.’ We were coy. We wanted to see where this was going
Jun 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
In the 1980s an East German criminal was delivered across the Berlin Wall to fuel a tide of neo-Nazi violence that still plagues Germany today.
His name was Rainer Sonntag—and he was a Communist spy.
His handler? Vladimir Putin.
magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-lea…
Sonntag grew disillusioned with East Germany's worker's paradise—and attempted a couple of elaborate escapes.
The nation's feared secret police was always a step—and an informant—ahead. Sonntag faced an ultimatum: spy for the cops, or go back to jail. magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-lea…
