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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    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?

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          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.

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            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 😄

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    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.

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

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    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