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Agent Orange and the Manchurian Candidate? Not So Fast

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On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that a number of Donald Trump’s campaign aides and “other associates” were engaged in a running dialogue with Russian intelligence over the last year or more.

Manchurian Candidate anyone? Not yet at least.

Some of the items cited are old news, like the information that Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager to midsummer 2016, received payments out of the Ukraine, and may have served as an undisclosed lobbyist for Ukraine’s former president, a good friend of Vladimir Putin.

A good deal of this information in the new Times article can be found in a Time magazine article from last August. The further details provided by the Times betray reporting that is lacking in depth and apparently designed to attract eyeballs.


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Last modified on Monday, 20 February 2017 18:36

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