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NYT bestselling author of 6 books on the GOP’s assault on democracy, including American Kompromat. Apple Books says my latest,Den of Spies, about the 1980 October Surprise, is "the scariest political thriller you've ever read." www.craigunger.com.

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Jeffrey Epstein's Really Big Short In addition to his sex crimes, Epstein ran an obscure company that accrued billions in liabilities in the same dicey securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Know who bailed him out? You did!

Do read @craigunger.bsky.social analysis craigunger.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

06.03.2026 05:15 👍 9 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1
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This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

06.03.2026 08:22 👍 3588 🔁 1248 💬 726 📌 1255
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This reminds me of one week into the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when WSJ was proclaiming Rumsfeld the greatest US secretary of defense of all time. That didn't weather well. Neither will this, which indeed is an insult to the intelligence of the average WSJ reader.

06.03.2026 13:02 👍 54 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 1
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US Commanders Want to Make War With Iran as ‘Bloody’ as Possible to Bring About Biblical End Times, Officers Report | Common Dreams One noncommissioned officer said he was directed to tell his troops that Trump was "anointed by Jesus" and that war with Iran was "all part of God’s divine plan" to bring about armageddon.

Remember when Trump moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in his first term?

He was catering to a sizeable group of evangelical Trump supporters who think HE will bring about Armageddon, which comes only after the restoration of Jerusalem.

www.commondreams.org/news/iran-ar...

04.03.2026 07:17 👍 38 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 1
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Craig Unger (@craigunger) Bill Spindle is the real deal when it comes to energy and the Middle East. https://billspindle.substack.com/p/paradigm-shift?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

substack.com/profile/2201...

05.03.2026 21:10 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2

Everything he does is in service of Putin.

28.02.2026 15:28 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

This piece by Craig Unger is worth reading. It is about how Iran came to be what it is, and how Ronald Reagan made that happen.

28.02.2026 16:56 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Truth comes out at the end after all. Thank you @craigunger.bsky.social craigunger.substack.com/p/they-built...

01.03.2026 04:52 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1

It's very hard for the public to learn who is behind these accounts, but if any prosecutors did want to take up this case, it would likely be trivially easy to subpoena all the evidence they need.

01.03.2026 14:01 👍 243 🔁 75 💬 6 📌 0
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They Built It. Now They Want to Bomb It. Today's Iran crisis didn't start with just the mullahs. It started with a secret deal that Republican operatives made with them— a deal that changed history and may now lead to war.

They Built It. Now They're Bombing It.

The 1980 October Surprise didn't just put Reagan in the White House. GOP operatives also sided with repressive Islamists who took control of the Iranian revolution and squashed the forces of secular democracy.

open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

28.02.2026 15:44 👍 45 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 1

@craigunger.bsky.social wrote a book titled "American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump..." that I recommend everyone read. It's stunning how long the corruption has been occurring.

27.02.2026 14:40 👍 19 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

Thx Craig!
bsky.app/profile/love...

27.02.2026 14:58 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

He’s been doing this for decades.

27.02.2026 15:10 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Jeffrey Epstein's Really Big Short In addition to his sex crimes, Epstein ran an obscure company that accrued billions in liabilities in the same dicey securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Know who bailed him out? You did!

open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

28.02.2026 02:35 👍 15 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
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Jeffrey Epstein's Really Big Short In addition to his sex crimes, Epstein ran an obscure company that accrued billions in liabilities in the same dicey securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Know who bailed him out? You did!

open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

28.02.2026 02:35 👍 15 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
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In Trump’s Case for War, a Series of False or Unproven Claims

In Trump’s Case for War, a Series of False or Unproven Claims www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

27.02.2026 11:59 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks

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no news is bad news YouTube video by Paul Krugman

Larry Ellison is buying CNN. That’s a disaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEwy...

27.02.2026 11:27 👍 677 🔁 224 💬 45 📌 11
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How Trump's Real Estate Laundered Russian Mob Money Craig Unger dives into the long, complex history of Donald Trump’s international real estate ventures and their intersections with Russian state security.

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27.02.2026 07:03 👍 30 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 3
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Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military Some senior officials resisted the decision to approve the major military spending increase, people familiar with the matter said.

SCOOP: Trump aides are struggling to spend an extra $500 billion on the military, delaying budget

Trump agreed to Hegseth’s bid for *~50%~* military spending boost

Vought & others objected internally

It’s so much $ they can’t figure out how to spend it

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

22.02.2026 19:35 👍 234 🔁 82 💬 42 📌 82
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#36 The Golden Escalator, the Moscow Deal, and Russian Operatives Trump's ongoing Moscow deal, though secret, was still a real possibility, as Russian operatives penetrated multiple aspects of his presidential campaign.

As the 2016 election approached, Russian operatives penetrated every aspect of the Trump campaign.

Check out my latest post:

Trump Russia Timeline #36 The Golden Escalator, the Moscow Deal, and Russian Operatives open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

22.02.2026 16:44 👍 199 🔁 102 💬 5 📌 8

@craigunger.bsky.social ..

22.02.2026 01:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

That’s what one would call kompromat. Almost like the title of the book by @craigunger.bsky.social, winner of the 2026 I-told-you-so prize. It’s not too late to read “American Kompromat”.

20.02.2026 18:59 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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“A govt. that arrests journalists for speech is a govt. declaring war on the First Amendment...”

@kimwehle.bsky.social breaks down Don Lemon’s prosecution while explaining the Face Act under Trump’s war on free speech. Lemon is set to appear in federal court today.

Read: zeteo.com/p/will-trump...

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17.02.2026 11:10 👍 429 🔁 75 💬 17 📌 5
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Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died Tuesday at 84. nyti.ms/4bZdMPa

17.02.2026 11:10 👍 200 🔁 60 💬 6 📌 7
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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

17.02.2026 07:27 👍 12416 🔁 4932 💬 262 📌 308
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The Russians launched 400 drones and 29 missiles of various types at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight. Some were shot down, but unfortunately, there were hits.

17.02.2026 10:58 👍 179 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1
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CBS is lost. Trump controls it.

17.02.2026 10:10 👍 3681 🔁 1200 💬 234 📌 85
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Jeffrey Epstein's Really Big Short In addition to his sex crimes, Epstein ran an obscure company that accrued billions in liabilities in the same dicey securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Know who bailed him out? You did!

With all you know about Jeffrey Epstein, did you really want your hard-earned tax dollars to go to him?

Sorry, but they did.

In 2008, nearly $7 billion in taxpayers money went to bail out a secret offshore firm chaired by Epstein.

Here’s how it happened: open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

16.02.2026 22:40 👍 68 🔁 50 💬 5 📌 4