SocraticGadfly: The Resistance 2.0 wants to relitigate Russiagate 1.0

March 12, 2025

The Resistance 2.0 wants to relitigate Russiagate 1.0

Michael Sellers doesn't seem as nutbar on the surface as Jon Chait. But here he is, "ex"-spook and all, reviving the claim that Trump was "recruited," and not necessarily in the Gorbachev years, but with the Czechs leaning on Ivana's dad back in late Brezhnev times.

I said in a quote-tweet that, per Wikipedia with links (and Wiki usually has links, so you can trace its claims; in places where it doesn't, be more skeptical, that Yuri Shvets isn't that reliable. At a minimum, he's a blowhard who's made unsubstantiated claims about several things.

And, per Snopes, Alnur Mussayev is even less reliable with his "Krasnov" claims.

Sellers, who is presenting a whole set of Substack pieces with the — head fake, IMO — of "let us proceed cautiously with this," quoted my quote and doubled down on claims both have the straight skinny.

I have no doubt that there's plenty of other Michael Sellers people out there, and many others quoting him approvingly.

We've got 3 years, 10 months of tribalism left.

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