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American kompromat : how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump, and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery / Craig Unger.

American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive interviews with high-level sources in the KGB, CIA, and FBI, as well as lawyers at white-shoe Washington firms, associates of Jeffrey Epstein, and thousands of pages of FBI reports, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. A narrative offering jaw-dropping context, and set in Upper East Side mansions and private Caribbean islands, gigantic yachts, and private jets, American Kompromat shows that from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, Russian operations transformed the darkest secrets of the most powerful people in the world into potent weapons that served its interests. Among its many revelations, American Kompromat addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era - and one that Unger argues is even more important now that Trump is out of office: Was Donald Trump a Russian asset? Just how compromised was he? And how could such an audacious feat have been accomplished? To answer these questions and more, Craig Unger reports, is to understand kompromat- operations that amassed compromising information on the richest and most powerful men on earth, and that leveraged power by appealing to what is, for some, the most prized possession of all: their vanity. This is a story that transcends the end of the Trump administration, illuminating a major underreported aspect of Trump's corruption that has profoundly damaged American democracy.

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C9009235644 973.933 UNG
Adult nonfiction   Smithfield Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781922310958 (paperback)
Dewey 973.933
Author Unger, Craig author.
Title American kompromat : how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump, and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery / Craig Unger.
Published Melbourne, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2021.
Physical description 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 24 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents note The monster plot -- The spotter -- The asset -- Spy wars -- The expert -- Yaseneva days -- Opus Dei -- Betrayal -- The new praetorian guard -- The cover-up general -- The bouncing Czech -- Ghislaine and Jeffrey -- Sex, spies, and videotape -- Who's got the kompromat? -- Two needles in a haystack -- The lawyers -- Barr justice -- American carnage.
Summary American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive interviews with high-level sources in the KGB, CIA, and FBI, as well as lawyers at white-shoe Washington firms, associates of Jeffrey Epstein, and thousands of pages of FBI reports, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. A narrative offering jaw-dropping context, and set in Upper East Side mansions and private Caribbean islands, gigantic yachts, and private jets, American Kompromat shows that from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, Russian operations transformed the darkest secrets of the most powerful people in the world into potent weapons that served its interests. Among its many revelations, American Kompromat addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era - and one that Unger argues is even more important now that Trump is out of office: Was Donald Trump a Russian asset? Just how compromised was he? And how could such an audacious feat have been accomplished? To answer these questions and more, Craig Unger reports, is to understand kompromat- operations that amassed compromising information on the richest and most powerful men on earth, and that leveraged power by appealing to what is, for some, the most prized possession of all: their vanity. This is a story that transcends the end of the Trump administration, illuminating a major underreported aspect of Trump's corruption that has profoundly damaged American democracy.
Subject Trump, Donald, -- 1946-Friends and associates
Trump, Donald, -- 1946-Relations with Russians
Trump, Donald, -- 1946-Friends and associates
Trump, Donald, -- 1946-Relations with Russians
Political corruption
Rich people -- Political activity
Intelligence service -- Russia (Federation)
United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- United States
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