Craig Unger

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If you wonder why the hell no one understands what's going on, the answer is that it's not an accident, and it's been in the works for some time.
 • Craig Unger
When Did Donald Trump Decide He Wanted to Destroy the Western Alliance?
To understand what's going on today, maybe we have to go back to the !980s when Donald Trump was first cultivated by the KGB.
 • Craig Unger
#35. Midnight in Moscow: The Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Edition (2014)
Jared's and Ivanka's under-the-radar trip to Moscow didn't make headlines, but it played a vital role in solidifying relationships between the Trump…
 • Craig Unger
Three Peas in a Pod
Ghislaine Maxwell and Trump have a history that goes back more than thirty-five years. When Jeffrey Epstein joined in, it turned out that they all had…
 • Craig Unger
Why Steve Witkoff is Selling Out Ukraine?
Why did Witkoff write a recommendation for Russian mobster Anatoly Golubchik? He said his only tie to the "enforcer" for Russian Mafia was via an…
 • Craig Unger
#34. From Las Vegas to Moscow: The Miss Universe Pageant and Trump's Russian Ties (2013)
As prelude to Russian collusion on his behalf in 2016, Trump won Kremlin support while staging a pageant featuring, as he put it, "the most beautiful…
 • Craig Unger
Dealer's Choice: Trump and the Russian Mafia, 2013 #33
When the Feds busted a $100 million poker game that laundered money in Trump Tower, 28 participants went to jail. But its leader somehow ended up on the…
 • Craig Unger
The Epstein Emails: The Russian Connection
According to Jeffrey Epstein, Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin learned a lot about Trump from their conversations. Then, he died. "Life is…
 • Craig Unger
#32. Missteps on the Steppes of Central Asia (2012)
After franchising his name in Azerbaijan and Georgia for projects that flopped, Trump continued to ransack the other remnants of the former Soviet…
 • Craig Unger and Olga Lautman
Remember the Alamo?
I do. But the GOP's ongoing war on wokeness is making sure the rest of the world forgets that its "heroes"--Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, etc--were really…
 • Craig Unger
#31. Georgia on his Mind(2011)
Now that Trump had become the Colonel Sanders of luxury condos, he took his new franchising model to the Georgian port city of Batumi. Once again, the…
 • Craig Unger
#30 Trump's Russian Laundromat: The South Florida Edition (2003-2010's)
Trump's Russian laundromat was not confined to New York or his overseas properties. In south Florida as well, Russians gobbled up Trump condos via…
 • Craig Unger
Craig Unger
Craig Unger
Craig's six books on the GOP's assault on democracy include NYT bestsellers American Kompromat; House of Bush, House of Saud, and House of Trump, House of Putin. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Esquire, the New Yorker, etc.
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