UNLOCKING The Complete American Monsters Series, So Far — The Hateful Eight

Removing the paywall for 24 hours on this compilation of the first eight in a series about US criminals accelerating global fascism

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The Hateful Eight

Below is a compilation of the first eight American Monsters, and it’s truly an American horror story. Even though I largely write these series from memory — investigating Trump Russia has been my life’s work — I am gobsmacked by what I am learning.

For example, I learned that the American people had voted Hillary Clinton as our favorite politician in 2013. She won over President Obama and Joe Biden, she beat John McCain and other popular GOP leaders. She was loved, this despite the right-wing cottage-industry that had been built to destroy her — the Nixon speechwriter who wrote Blizzard of Lies in the New York Times, casting her as a black widow and never apologizing for all that he got wrong — despite promising to do so.

Three years after that vote and a million ‘Benghazis’ later, Putin’s military and US traitors had gone all in — funding a malinformation hate campaign against her, making her the first politician to be virtually assassinated on US soil.

The cruelty of it all.

Below are the first eight reports unlocked from the American Monster series in the order in which they were written. Audio versions for members of each print report can be found in the podcast section.

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No. 1 — Paul Manafort

No. 2 — Roger Stone

No. 3 — Roy Cohn

No. 4 — Donald Trump

No. 5 — Steve Bannon

No. 6 — Mike Flynn

No. 7 — Rudy Giuliani

No. 8 — Robert Mercer

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