JD Vance took time out of Trump’s Crusades against Iran to tamper in Hungary’s election not just because Viktor Orbán is the ideological figurehead of the far right, but because Hungary serves as a key vehicle laundering Russian money to the broader far right.
Foreign Influence
Michael Anton and the Secret National Security Strategy
The report that there’s a longer unpublished version of the National Security Strategy that is even worse than the one that got published should focus attention on why Michael Anton left before either got finished.
The Special Relationship is Now Pretty Ordinary
It’s no longer “business as usual” for the UK Foreign Office and the Department for Business and Trade.
Eric Adams Indicted
Although the indictment of Eric Adams is 50-pages long, it only lays out one of the schemes known to be under investigation and does not (yet) include a FARA component.
Useful Idiots: DOJ Moves from Name-and-Shame to Name-and-Disrupt
The RT indictment rolled out last week serves as an object lesson in how Russia has been using RT as part of its intelligence recruiting.
Lauren Chen’s Curious Legal Status
Lauren Chen’s Canadian citizenship and US residence likely mean that right wing panic that she’s been FISA targeted are incorrect. But the dual-country structure of her business may exacerbate any criminal exposure for her, making it far easier to obtain her content using criminal process.
The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One
Given Trump’s ongoing Saudi business deals, we literally do not know whether Trump would enter the White House as a business partner, an employee, or an unregistered foreign agent of the Saudi state. That makes questions about his Saudi ties more urgent than questions about the suspected $10 million payment from Egypt.
Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden’s Age
Trump might literally sell out the next journalist who opposes him to be chopped up by some foreign dictator. Yet the journalists covering his campaign don’t seem to care.
Brazil Charges Coup-Plotter Bolsonaro for Saudi Gifts as Trump Org Unveils New Saudi High Rise
The value of the diamonds for which Brazil will charge Jair Bolsonaro laundering pale in comparison to the money Saudi Arabia has given to that other coup-plotter, Donald Trump.
Ashraf Shaaban Listed as Global Legal Head of National Bank of Egypt
The American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt ties a lawyer named in the court filings investigating a suspected payment to Trump to the National Bank of Egypt.
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