REGISTER: Bette's Happy Hour with Craig Unger, Tuesday July 21, 11 am Pacific

Bette members: please register for our Tuesday Happy Hour with Craig Unger, NYT-bestselling author of American Kompromat - July 21, 11 am Pacific

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“I am working on my next post on how nothing really moves the needle and why. That is to say, the president is a rapist. Ho hum. A Russian asset. So what? How did that come to be and why. When I was a child Sherman Adams was the subject of a huge scandal because he took an overcoat as an apparent quid pro quo. But now you have the most corrupt president in history by far and a third of the country is perfectly happy with that. How did that happen?”—Craig Unger for Bette Dangerous

I can only go about a month or so before I need to hear from Craig Unger.

I asked the New York Times-bestselling author and intrepid investigative reporter to join our Happy Hour, Tuesday, July 21, 11 am Pacific, to walk us through his recent Substack post, How Did the FBI Allow the Greatest Intelligence Failure in American History to Take Place?

How Did the FBI Allow the Greatest Intelligence Failure in American History to Take Place?

As the tease quote at the top of this post hints, Unger will also preview what he’s working on next.

For those new to Bette, here’s a report I worked on with Unger, revealing key Russian women in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit:

Hot Type: Epstein and Russian Connections to One of the World's 'Sleaziest Pimps'

And here is a detailed conversation with him covering his decade of investigating Trump’s ties to Russia:

American Kompromat: A Sweeping Conversation with Craig Unger

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Read more about the Trump-Russia Timeline and Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ties on Craig Unger’s substack here:

• Trump-Russia Timeline

• The Epstein Files: The Russian Connection.

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Craig Unger is the New York Times-bestselling author of six books on the Republican Party’s assault on democracy, including House of Bush, House of Saud; House of Trump, House of Putin, and now Den of Spies, a real life political thriller about how master spy William Casey put together a treasonous covert operation in 1980 that hijacked American foreign policy and stole the election for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

A graduate of Harvard University, Craig began his career in journalism as an undergraduate editor of The Harvard Crimson. In 1976, he moved to France as co-owner/editor of The Paris Metro, a celebrated biweekly English-language city magazine in the French capital. In the Eighties, as senior editor at New York Magazine, Craig wrote and edited major features on subjects ranging from medicine to pop culture, architecture, and politics. Over the years, his work has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, The Independent, and many other publications. He also served as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair where he covered national security and foreign affairs for more than 15 years.

You can check out his collection of investigative reporting on Trump-Russia and the Republican party’s war on democracy here by ordering his books here:

Look forward to seeing many of you at our Happy Hour.

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