Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
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Sep 25, 2026
Joanna ColesHOST
Which, I mean, a very strange juxtaposition of, you know, horrible African dictator buying cotton wool pads from Duane Reade.
Michael WolffHOST
So I got, during the first Trump administration, sort of at the height of Russiagate and the investigation of Donald Trump for his ties to Putin and to Russia, during UN week, I got a call, someone I knew, called me and said that a particular Russian oligarch by the name actually of Oleg Deripaska would like to meet me.
Michael WolffHOST
And I was like, what's that about? And I said, this was like, well, late in the afternoon.
Michael WolffHOST
And I said, and they said, can you come now? I guess oligarchs like that.
Scott HortonHOST
Well, you know, I just, as long as we're comparing lengths here, I just put out chapter five of the audio book of Provoked and it is seven and a half hours.
Scott HortonHOST
Um, but the, the Russiagate part is only like 420.
Scott HortonHOST
So there you go.
Scott HortonHOST
You got me beat there.
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Scott HortonHOST
I just want to mention this one, though, real quick.
Scott HortonHOST
This is a little more like culture worried domestic issues.
Scott HortonHOST
This is a huge giant Russiagate that's going on right now, Daryl Cooper, that may be under your radar and under a lot of radars.
Scott HortonHOST
It's not quite as prominent as the Russians did a coup d'etat and stole the president in power in 2016 level thing.
Josef BurtonGUEST
You also have things like the State Department kind of hinting at or how would I say this kind of like jousting at the prospect of foreign interference in the 2024 elections.
Josef BurtonGUEST
You know, statements and reports about how like Venezuela tried to interfere in the 2024 elections to make Trump lose as kind of a revenge for Russiagate.
Josef BurtonGUEST
And
Jake RockatanskyHOST
you also
Larry ElderHOST
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, the NPR's coverage was remarkably sparse.
Larry ElderHOST
Russiagate quickly faded from our programming.
Larry ElderHOST
And he writes, it's one thing to get a story wrong that happens.
Larry ElderHOST
It's another thing to get a story wrong and not acknowledge that you got it wrong and move on as if it never happened.
Berny BelvedereGUEST
But that was just like a long windup to ask you about this, because I remember...
Berny BelvedereGUEST
You did a lot of good work on the Russiagate thing.
Berny BelvedereGUEST
There's always in society...
Berny BelvedereGUEST
In society, we always have a few things that sort of collectively, the revisionism is kind of broken through.
Berny BelvedereGUEST
COVID is a big one of them in terms of how we remember it and who was quote-unquote right about it.
Berny BelvedereGUEST
I mean, there's so much revisionism about that.
Berny BelvedereGUEST
Russiagate is another one.
Berny BelvedereGUEST
So think about the linguistic miracle of the fact that Russiagate as a term is used by people on both sides to sort of expect the other side to understand what they're saying.
Sean StoneGUEST
I don't have particular faith in the establishment.
Sean StoneGUEST
I mean, it's like I interviewed Kash Patel back In 2024, I guess, before the election, I did a documentary series called All the President's Men about the Russiagate scandal and how the deep state concocted this whole Russiagate narrative, the Russian narrative behind Trump.
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And so
Sean StoneGUEST
I interviewed Kash Patel, amongst others.
Chris BedfordGUEST
All of that exists now.
Chris BedfordGUEST
And because it exists, Donald Trump did not go down the exact same way that Richard Nixon was supposed to go down with the Russiagate hoax.
Chris BedfordGUEST
He was able to fight back in a way that Nixon was not able to.
Chris BedfordGUEST
He was less naive about the American, what was happening to him.
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Chris BedfordGUEST
There's no apology.
Chris BedfordGUEST
Politicians are not taken back from the people who put us down.
Chris BedfordGUEST
Saying the Russiagate stuff was fake, like totally fake through and through, was poo-pooed.
Chris BedfordGUEST
But the great thing is, just like with Nixon, with Russiagate, the FBI and the CIA left a paper trail.
Aaron MatéGUEST
It took me a long time, but I did.
Aaron MatéGUEST
And luckily for me, my shift to being totally independent on my own after democracy coincided with this big thing we talked about earlier in the U.S. called Russiagate, where Russia was blamed for Trump winning.
Aaron MatéGUEST
And to me, it was a scam and it was a very dangerous one for the reason I talked about earlier.
Aaron MatéGUEST
And at the time, everybody pretty much went along with it, with few exceptions.
Larry ElderHOST
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, the NPR's coverage was remarkably sparse.
Larry ElderHOST
Russiagate quickly faded from our programming.
Larry ElderHOST
And he writes, it's one thing to get a story wrong that happens.
Larry ElderHOST
It's another thing to get a story wrong and not acknowledge that you got it wrong and move on as if it never happened.
DashGUEST
And it didn't take long for, surprise, a Russian oligarch funded his wedding parties, which this story, I believe, is pretty fucked up because...
DashGUEST
With everything, with Russiagate, you know, the pee tapes, like, you know, Trump is constantly saying, Russia, Russia, Russia.
DashGUEST
And what a surprise, Russia is involved in the president's son, his wedding.
DashGUEST
And I love this because the Trump family, like, never really has been that rich.
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