c/politics · by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1y

Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/03/trump-official-shut-russia-propaganda-unit-kremlin-ties/

A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin, The Telegraph can reveal.

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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 30 pts · 1y (7 replies)

A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin

They're talking about Melania, right?

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 9 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Melania Trump is Slovenian. Slovenia doesn't even share a border with Russia.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Fun fact, you never have to step on Russian soil to have links to the Kremlin.

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 11 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Nobody is disputing that, pooptart.

a Russian woman (...) They’re talking about Melania, right?

This is objectively wrong. I also don't see any reason to suspect her of having "links to the Kremlin", other than through her husband of course.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y

Nobody is disputing that, pooptart.

I thought that last word was an uncalled for and extremely childish insult (rather than spelling out their handle) at first, which delighted me so much that I was only slightly disappointed to be wrong 😄

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Ya got me there, I must have skimmed past the "Russian woman" part.

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

Thanks for setting it straight!

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

She still sounds illegal...

Papers, please!

Weirdmusic@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I am shocked, shocked I tell you. 🙄

not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world · 12 pts · 1y

Of course, all MAGAs are traitors.

fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y

Cocopanda@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Can't wait for that CW2 to get hot.

not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I'm just hoping for 2.0 k/d ratio minimum for me.

Linktank@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1y

Let them rot on the surface. Only the honored dead deserve a proper burial.

KnightontheSun@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Telegraph isn’t credible in my opinion.

Edit to add that the story is plausible to me, but I don’t trust The Telegraph very much.

mrsjmccrimmon@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y

The Telegraph host Ukraine: the Latest podcast. Their international coverage and work is very good.

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

In the years before joining the government, Mr Beattie wrote social media posts suggesting Western institutions should be “infiltrated” by Putin, while he also attacked what he described as the “globalist American empire”.

Awesome dude to put in charge. /s