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Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin, The Telegraph can reveal.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin

They're talking about Melania, right?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Melania Trump is Slovenian. Slovenia doesn't even share a border with Russia.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact, you never have to step on Russian soil to have links to the Kremlin.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Nobody is disputing that, pooptart.

a Russian woman (...) They’re talking about Melania, right?

This is objectively wrong. I also don't see any reason to suspect her of having "links to the Kremlin", other than through her husband of course.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nobody is disputing that, pooptart.

I thought that last word was an uncalled for and extremely childish insult (rather than spelling out their handle) at first, which delighted me so much that I was only slightly disappointed to be wrong 😄

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Ya got me there, I must have skimmed past the "Russian woman" part.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for setting it straight!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

She still sounds illegal...

Papers, please!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I am shocked, shocked I tell you. 🙄

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Of course, all MAGAs are traitors.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Can't wait for that CW2 to get hot.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm just hoping for 2.0 k/d ratio minimum for me.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Let them rot on the surface. Only the honored dead deserve a proper burial.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Telegraph isn’t credible in my opinion.

Edit to add that the story is plausible to me, but I don’t trust The Telegraph very much.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The Telegraph host Ukraine: the Latest podcast. Their international coverage and work is very good.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

In the years before joining the government, Mr Beattie wrote social media posts suggesting Western institutions should be “infiltrated” by Putin, while he also attacked what he described as the “globalist American empire”.

Awesome dude to put in charge. /s

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