A decades-long trail of money and kompromat that isn’t just scandal — it’s a threat to the world order and to democracy itself.
For nearly a decade, the refrain has been the same: Russia, Russia, Russia. Each time the alarms sound, we’re told to wait for the “smoking gun” — the kompromat tape, the bank record, the document that will finally answer the questions raised by the tortuous relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. And each time, polite company shrugs, dismisses, or simply moves on.
But what if the story was never about one document, one tape, or one transaction? What if the scandal isn’t a theory at all, but a map of simple facts — facts that my guest on this WhoWhatWhy podcast, Craig Unger, has been assembling for years, in plain sight, across real estate ledgers, mob connections, intelligence archives, and the murky world of Jeffrey Epstein?
Unger is the bestselling author of House of Trump, House of Putin, and American Kompromat. For over a decade, he’s been documenting what he argues is the most audacious intelligence operation in modern history.
In this conversation, Unger argues that what played out in Alaska last week wasn’t just another bizarre Trump-Putin spectacle. It was the latest chapter in a 40-year operation that began when Soviet money came pouring out of a collapsing empire and found a willing conduit in New York’s high-stakes real estate market. From Trump Tower to Epstein’s shadowy orbit, from oligarch cash to NATO’s survival, Unger traces the dots that others have ignored — and shows what they spell when you finally connect them.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It isn’t speculation. It’s the uncomfortable truth that while we’ve been distracted by partisan squabbles, a long-armed intelligence operation has been unfolding before us. And if Unger is right, it’s not just about Trump, or Putin, or even Ukraine. It’s about a threat to the very architecture of Western democracy.
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