Russia, Russia, Russia—Again & Again & Again
Deep Dives
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Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
12 min read
The article extensively discusses the intelligence community assessments and investigations into Russian interference, making this Wikipedia article essential context for understanding the specific findings, methods, and scope of Russian operations that form the factual basis for the controversies described
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Paul Manafort
18 min read
Manafort is central to the article's argument about Trump-Russia connections, specifically his role as campaign chairman and his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik. His full biography including his decades of work for Ukrainian oligarchs and pro-Russian politicians provides crucial context
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Internet Research Agency
13 min read
The article references Russian intelligence operations and the Mueller investigation but doesn't detail the specific mechanisms of Russian social media influence. Understanding this Russian troll farm's operations illuminates the 'active measures' campaigns mentioned in the Senate Intelligence Committee report
Far-right influencers have been hinting in recent weeks that they have finally found a venue — Miami — and a federal prosecutor — Jason A. Reding Quiñones — to pursue long-promised charges of a “grand conspiracy” against President Trump’s adversaries….
Last week, Mr. Reding Quiñones, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, issued more than two dozen subpoenas, including to officials who took part in the inquiry into ties between Russia and Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Among them, they said, were James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence; Peter Strzok, a former F.B.I. counterintelligence agent who helped run the Russia investigation; and Lisa Page, a former lawyer at the bureau.
—Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer & Charlie Savage, “Trump Loyalists Push ‘Grand Conspiracy’ as New Subpoenas Land,” the New York Times, 9 November 2025
Since the day he learned that the FBI was looking into his campaign’s ties to Russia, Donald Trump has sought to discredit the investigation, impugn the individuals behind it, and insist that the whole thing was not just a “witch hunt,” but “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!”
Even now, his allies in Washington, on TV news, and in sensationalized content produced by MAGA influencers (some of whom, per the allegations in the indictment of Tenet Media, literally took money from Russia!), refer to the investigation as “the Russia hoax,” in a quixotic effort to deny the Mueller Report, Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 Election, ten years of investigative reporting in media outlets large and small, all available evidence, and Occam’s razor.
Given the weaponization of the Justice Department, the bogus indictment of James Comey by dime-store Hope Hicks Lindsey Halligan, and the installation of Kash Patel, a leader of the “Grand Conspiracists,” as FBI Director, it is unfortunate but not surprising that this claque of MAGA loyalists has found a prosecutor willing to make a complete ass of himself by signing off on a flurry of subpoenas to key figures in the various investigations into Trump/Russia.
According to the New York Times, “The investigation in Florida appears to focus, for now, on a January 2017 intelligence community assessment about Russian interference in the 2016 election, particularly the role played by John O. Brennan,
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