"Craing Unger's... book has... made headlines... because of a charge from an ex- colonel, , that Donald Trump has been a KGB asset for 40 years. ...Unger points out ... ...called Trump an "unwitting agent" ... ...described him "in effect... an intelligence asset"; and ...John Brennan ...said Trump is "wholly in the pocket of Putin". So Shvets' accusation isn’t... surprising. ...[T]he meaning of ...scores of anecdotes ...in these pages—is never fully explained. ...[T]he author ...throw[s] in almost every bit of unconfirmed gossip ever published about everyone from ...Jeffrey Epstein to ...Robert Maxwell. ...[T]hroughout Unger’s book: dozens ...of wild stories and salacious accusations, almost all "too good to check" ...Details ...keep you turning the pages. But Unger’s willingness to include almost anything to titillate makes this book ...unsatisfactory."
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, "American Kompromat review: Trump, Russia, Epstein ...and a lot we just don't know" The Guardian (Feb 7, 2021)
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Craig Unger
(b. March 25, 1949) is an American journalist and writer. He has served as deputy editor of ' and was editor-in-chief of Boston magazine. He has written about George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush for ', Esquire magazine, and Vanity Fair magazine. He has written about the and .
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