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Name: Russian Roulette
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Author: Michael Isikoff and David Corn

Michael Isikoff and David Corn

The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump

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What’s in it for me? Get informed on Russian involvement in the 2016 Trump campaign.

The 2016 US presidential election was such a wild circus ride that it’s likely to continue being a subject of investigation for some time to come. One of its more serious aspects was the involvement, and subsequent influence, of Russian hackers.

Investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn closely followed the events of the campaign and have put together the pieces to help walk readers through its many unexpected twists. Isikoff and Corn draw strong connections between Trump’s 2013 trip to Moscow, his efforts to build a Trump Tower in the city and the subsequent meetings at the New York Trump Tower between campaign personnel and Russian officials.

One of the concerns the journalists point to is the lack of effort made by the Trump campaign to inform law enforcement of their meeting, once it became clear that the election was being interfered with by Russian agents.

Without further ado, let’s dive into the authors’ report of what happened in the months leading up to the historic 2016 election.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

what a Russian pop star had to do with the 2016 election;
what role a Scottish professor played in Trump’s ties to Russia; and
what happened at the 2016 G20 summit between Obama and Putin.

Donald Trump sought to expand his business into Russia and displayed admiration for Russian president Putin.

On November 9, 2013, the Crocus City Hall in Moscow was being prepared for a lavish extravaganza. The occasion centered around Donald Trump – the American business mogul and star of his own reality TV show – who was using the location for his most prized asset: the Miss Universe pageant.

But this event was more than just a beauty contest. Trump had picked Moscow because he was eager to meet and make a good impression with Russian president Vladimir Putin, in the hope that he could expand his business into the country and even build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

While Trump was nervous about whether Putin would show up for the pageant, he was also dealing with some bad press. By choosing Moscow as the event location, Trump had angered human rights organizations protesting against recent anti-gay legislation approved by the Russian parliament. The new law banned any so-called “gay propaganda,” under the justification of protecting children from being exposed to anything non-heterosexual.

As a result, the Human Rights Campaign had demanded that he relocate the Miss Universe pageant, but Trump was determined. He’d been planning this business opportunity for too long, and by now too much was on the line.

Aside from Putin, Trump was also looking forward to working with Emin Agalarov; an up-and-coming pop star from Azerbaijan that Trump had booked to perform.

But it wasn’t just his musical talents that had Trump interested: Emin was the son of Aras Agalarov, a billionaire developer who was adept at cutting through Russian red tape in order to get projects moving. Sure enough, after the event, the Trump Organization and Agalarov’s company signed a letter of intent to construct a Trump Tower in Moscow.

As for Putin, Trump was persistent in his public praise for the man, all in an effort to get his blessing for the project. Over multiple tweets, he had nothing but nice things to say about Putin’s intelligence and leadership abilities.

The praise evidently paid off when Trump arrived in Moscow. Aras Agalarov handed him an official message that according to Trump read, “Mr. Putin would like to meet Mr. Trump.”

This was just the news that Trump had hoped for, but a traffic jam would mean that Putin didn’t make it to the pageant.

The Obama administration hoped to reset US-Russian diplomacy, but sanctions stalled Trump’s plans.

Trump had been this close to his face-to-face meeting with the most powerful man in Russia. Instead, he was left bitterly disappointed with Putin’s no-show at the pageant.

It wouldn’t be long before Trump’s dreams of a new Trump Tower in Moscow were brought to a standstill, but this was due less to the missed connection and more because of diplomatic changes between the US and Russia.

While Russian hackers attacked the Democratic Party, Trump temporarily renewed his Moscow plans.

To say Putin didn’t like Obama and Clinton would be a severe understatement. As a Russian nationalist, Putin despised these two figures and looked upon them as enemies impeding Russia’s goal of increasing its global power and extending its sphere of influence.

Russia and the US were returning to their old Cold War relationship of the 1980s, except now there was a new weapon with which to wage this war – social media.

Trump's campaign team had several staff members with deep Russian ties.

Both the Trump campaign staff and the Trump administration have seen a lot of personnel come and go, but one of the more interesting people was Paul Manafort, who joined Trump’s campaign in May of 2016 as chairman and chief strategist.

By that time, Manafort already had an impressive resume as a Republican Party consultant, having worked on the campaigns of George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. Yet Manafort appealed to Trump because, according to his own estimations, he didn’t carry any “Washington baggage” as he’d been away from the capital for some time.

The Trump team neglected to disclose important information to law enforcement.

Another top aide in the Trump campaign was the candidate’s son, Donald Trump, Jr. On June 3, 2016, he received a very sensitive email from Rob Goldstone – a publicist and key figure in the attempts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

Goldstone’s email had intriguing news: according to the Russian pop star, Emin Agalarov, the son of the Moscow real estate developer Aras Agalarov, Putin wanted to help Trump win the election. Not only that, but Russia’s Prosecutor General and Putin ally Yury Chaika was said to have incriminating information on Hillary Clinton that he would be willing to share.

After closing their investigation into Clinton’s emails, the FBI turned its attention to Trump.

In the first week of July 2016, FBI director James Comey was preparing to share some critical information – the results of an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information.

During Clinton’s time as Secretary of State, it was found that she’d sent emails containing top secret information using a private email server. Comey announced the highly anticipated results of this investigation, saying that while Clinton had been extremely careless in her handling of sensitive information, the FBI was not seeking to prosecute.

As Wikileaks published stolen emails, the government grew more alarmed.

On July 22, 2016, Julian Assange made an announcement. The founder of the whistle-blowing organization Wikileaks sent out a tweet stating that he would be starting a series of publications to release the twenty-thousand emails that had been hacked from the DNC.

The timing of this was quite intentional: it was the day before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, with delegates preparing to nominate Clinton as the official candidate. Several emails revealed senior Democratic officials scoffing at rival Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and favoring Clinton. Clearly, Wikileaks was trying to further the already tense divide within the Democratic party. Sure enough, when Sanders supporters arrived in Philadelphia, there was already a good share of outrage being expressed.

Obama confronted Putin about Russian interference, while the intelligence community prepared a statement.

While President Obama couldn’t make a public statement about Russian efforts to interfere with the election, there was an opportunity for him to do something.

In September of 2016, the G20 Summit being held in China presented Obama with the chance for a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin. And that’s just what happened.

An important statement from the intelligence community was overshadowed on a wild news day.

October 7, 2016 would turn out to be an especially wild one for those following the news cycle.

The US intelligence community no doubt imagined that their press release about the Russian state-sponsored hackers would be the biggest news of the day. After all, the US government had never accused a foreign nation of interfering with the election process before. But this news had some significant competition.

With Trump elected president, the Russian operation succeeded while the full scope remained under wraps.

By election day, much of the voting public was still in the dark about how much Russian interference had really been going on.

But the FBI was well aware of Russia’s assault on social media, with thousands of fake accounts flooding Facebook and Twitter with fake anti-Clinton and pro-Trump messages. They’d also opened an investigation into possible links between Trump and Russian officials, though they weren’t ready to divulge details.

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Russian Roulette (2018) relates the results of an investigation by two journalists into the Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election. These include details on Trump’s business ties to Russia, the Russian connections of his campaign team, the Russian hacking of Democratic institutions, the disinformation campaigns on social media and what Russian intelligence might have gathered to compromise Trump. The blinks also tell how the American intelligence community and the Obama administration reacted to the Russian hacking.

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By the summer of 2016, Trump began claiming he could only lose the White House if the election were rigged.

—Michael Isikoff and David Corn

Wer Russian Roulette lesen sollte

News junkies interested in the 2016 US presidential election
Concerned citizens who want to know more about Trump’s ties to Russia
Students of politics seeking an explanation for why Trump won

Über den Autor

Michael Isikoff is an investigative journalist who has worked for the Washington Post, Newsweek, and NBC News. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers – Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story (2011) and Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (2007). Isikoff is currently chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.

David Corn is a long-time Washington journalist and political commentator. He is the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine and an analyst for MSNBC. Corn has authored three New York Times bestsellers, including Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Battled the GOP to Set Up the 2012 Election (2012).

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