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June 2025

#21. If at First, You Don't Succeed (2008)
In which Trump once again demonstrates the art of the (failed) deal to build Trump Tower Moscow, but connects with Pavel Fuks, another oligarch with…
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#20 Trump Markets His Brand in Moscow(2007)
For all the glitzy promotion at Moscow's Millionaire Fair, Trump Vodka never got traction, but in promoting it, Donald Trump still made himself into a…
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#19 Moscow! Moscow! Moscow! (2004-2006)
Donald Trump has fantasized about building a Trump Tower Moscow for more than forty years. Will Putin give it to him in return for selling out Ukraine?
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The Iran Question: Is the US responsible for putting Iranian fundamentalists in power?
Ever wonder why the U.S. often supports the bad guys? Now that Iran is back in play, it's worth having a second look at the events of the coup of 1953…
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#18 The Franchise(2000-2010)
Billions of dollars in debt, beset by countless lawsuits, Donald Trump reinvents himself as the Colonel Sanders of luxury high-rises--with a little help…
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Did Michael Ledeen Help Start the Iraq War?
As America confronts the very real prospect of fascism, let's look back at a man who was both an expert on the subject--and a purveyor of it.
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#17 Paul Manafort's Griftapalooza(2004)
Wonder how Trump's nonstop grifting will end? It helps to remember that Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Manafort's pro-Putin candidate in Ukraine, was ousted by…
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May 2025

#16 The Biggest Grift of All (2000)
As the 20th century came to an end, Semion Kislin helped funnel a torrent of Russian flight capital into Trump real estate just when the future…
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#15 ....and Elon Musk, too?(2025)
Another one of Putin's helpers.
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Is Elon Musk a Russian Asset?
According to a new report by Germany's ZDF, Russian agents have targeted Elon Musk and see his affinity for "promiscuous women" and ketamine as his key…
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#14 A Gangster's Paradise(the late '90's)
There are no Trump tariffs on Moscow's biggest export-the mobsters and oligarchs who helped put him in power. Here's how they did it--and why Trump is…
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