Varun Ghosh reviews 'Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House' by Luke Harding

Varun Ghosh
Published in March 2018, no. 399
Varun Ghosh reviews 'Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House' by Luke Harding

Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House

by Luke Harding

Guardian Books/Faber, $29.99 pb, 344 pp, 9781783351497

It is now widely believed that Russia and its agents interfered with the 2016 US presidential election to help Donald Trump get elected. In Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House, journalist and author Luke Harding investigates the likelihood that Trump and his associates colluded with Russia to achieve that goal.

It is not an easy task. At first blush, the idea itself seems fantastical – the stuff of Cold War novels or conspiracy theories. Further, Harding is delving into the non-binary world of intelligence, where there are no definite truths, only ‘degrees of veracity’. Identifying and evaluating information from within the murky and incestuous world of post-Soviet Russia – a world where ministers, spies, and oligarchs do Vladimir Putin’s bidding as the sine qua non of survival – presents challenges, as does piercing the veil of Trump’s sprawling, often opaque, business empire.

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Published in March 2018, no. 399
Varun Ghosh

Varun Ghosh

Varun Ghosh is a lawyer from Perth. He received degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Western Australia and was a Commonwealth Scholar in Law at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked as a finance attorney in New York and as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington, DC.

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    So someone's being charged with "perjury" on the basis of a refusal to co-operate with an investigation launched by the alternative gang of war-mongers. Sounds familiar. Disclaimer: (yawn) I do not support Trump.

    Saturday, 03 March 2018 15:34 posted by  David Fitzpatrick

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