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На днях выходит обещанная книжка Дэвида Корна и Майкла Исикоффа Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.

Пока что для затравки опубликованы две главы. В одной из них описывается поездка Трампа в Москву в ноябре 2013. Добавляются множество ранее неизвестных деталей, которые дополняют картину.



Если верить книжке, личной встречи с Путиным, о которой мечтал Трамп, в 2013 не состоялось, но был звонок Пескова, а после - загадочное личное письмо от Путина в лакированной шкатулке.

“Is Putin coming?” he kept asking.
With no word from the Kremlin, it was starting to look grim. Then Agalarov conveyed a new message. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s right-hand man and press spokesman, would be calling any moment. Trump was relieved, especially after it was explained to him that few people were closer to Putin than Peskov. If anybody could facilitate a rendezvous with Putin, it was Peskov. “If you get a call from Peskov, it’s like you’re getting a call from Putin,” Rob Goldstone, a British-born publicist who had helped bring the beauty contest to Moscow, told him. But time was running out. The show would be starting soon, and following the broadcast Trump would be departing the city.
Finally, Agalarov’s cellphone rang. It was Peskov, and Agalarov handed the phone to an eager Trump. <...> Peskov conveyed an invitation for Trump to attend the upcoming Olympics, where perhaps he and Putin could then meet. He also told Trump that Putin would be sending a high-level emissary to the evening’s event—Vladimir Kozhin, a senior Putin aide. And, Peskov told Trump, Putin had a gift for him.
It was a crushing disappointment for Trump. But he quickly thought of how to spin it, suggesting to an associate that after the telecast they could spread the word that Putin had dropped by. “No one will know for sure if he came or not,” he said. <...> And shortly after the Miss Universe event, Agalarov’s daughter showed up at the Miss Universe office in New York City bearing a gift for Trump from Putin. It was a black lacquered box. Inside was a sealed letter from the Russian autocrat. What the letter said has never been revealed.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/russian-connection-what-happened-moscow-inside-story-trump-obsession-putin-david-corn-michael-isikoff/

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Сеть Reddit имеет не так много постоянных пользователей, как Facebook или Twitter, но эти пользователи активные. Большинство (70%) из них пользуются сайтом для того, чтобы узнавать новости.



Во время выборов 2016 канал r/The_Donald превратился в центральное место для фанатов Трампа из числа alt-right троллей, генерирующих мемы и теории заговора.

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