We break down the beginnings of the two campaigns to elect Donald Trump: one run out of Trump Tower, and the other run out of the Kremlin.
From the moment Trump announced he was running for president, he was unabashedly pro-Russia. It made no sense. Until we learned that throughout the campaign, the Trump Organization was actively seeking to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow.
In this episode of The Asset, host Max Bergmann, the director of The Moscow Project, an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, details the early connections between the two campaigns. Trump surrounded himself with shady actors with ties to the Kremlin, including his campaign chairman Paul Manafort, national security adviser Michael Flynn, and campaign aides George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
Lastly, the episode breaks down the beginning of the Russian campaign to elect Donald Trump and the origins of its online efforts. Russia created an online army online designed to poison American discourse on social media and advance Trump’s campaign. The Russian efforts worked like a political campaign and we will break down their impact on the 2016 election.
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What's Next?
BONUS- O What a Tangled Web
BONUS -- I is for Impeachment
Impeaching
BONUS-"Follow the Trail of Dead Russians" Part 2
BONUS-"Follow the Trail of Dead Russians"
BONUS-Excerpt of The Asset's Exclusive Interview with Calder Walton, general editor of the Cambridge History of Espionage and Intelligence: What You Need to Know About Russian Spying
BONUS - This Week in Impeachment: November 25, 2019
Extortion
BONUS - This Week In Impeachment: November 15
Scheming
A Rock and a Hard Place
Here We Go Again
Excerpt of The Asset's Exclusive Interview with The Atlantic's Franklin Foer: What You Need to Know About Ukraine
The Ukraine Affair
Excerpt of The Asset's Exclusive Interview with Journalist and Author Luke Harding
Excerpt of The Asset's Exclusive Interview with former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa
Cover Up
Payoff
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