Background Briefing: June 22, 2020
Strands of Incriminating Evidence Against Trump are Coming Together
We begin with the release of portions of the unredacted Mueller Report to Buzzfeed as a result of a FOIA suit relating to Roger Stone’s communications with Wikileaks in which Stone appears to be the Trump campaign contact to Assange and by extension the Russians. Scott Horton, a professor at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at Harper’s in legal affairs and national security joins us to discuss the many strands of incriminating evidence against Trump exposing his ties to Russia coming together from revelations by John Bolton in his new book, from Catherine Belton in her new book Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Took on the West and from Luke Harding’s forthcoming book Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West. With Russian money having rescued Trump after multiple bankruptcies and propped him up for decades, evidence is emerging in the U.K. that the Russians have also thoroughly infiltrated the British business sector and corrupted their political class managing to cover up parliamentary inquiries into covert Russian financing of Brexit and quite likely the current Prime Minister himself, Boris Johnson, who was one of the leading architects of Brexit.
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