Trump: The Kremlin Candidate? (2017)

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How it feels

A documentary journalist travels to several countries to examine connections between President Trump's associates and Russian officials. It looks into the Steele dossier and the possibility that Russia has compromising information on Trump.

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What happens

Trump: The Kremlin Candidate? is a documentary film first broadcast by the programme Panorama on BBC One, and first aired in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2017, four days before the first inauguration of Donald Trump. It examined links between Trump associates and Russian officials and the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. It features investigative journalist John Sweeney, who journeyed to Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and the United States during the course of his research. Sweeney had prior experience on the subject matter, having interviewed Trump in 2013, and Putin in 2014. The film was directed by Matthew Hill, Tomiko Newson, and Nick Sturdee. Throughout the documentary, Sweeney interviews intelligence and security analysts including John E. McLaughlin and Malcolm Nance, individuals with prior ties to Putin such as Aleksandr Dugin, Trump adviser Roger Stone and Russian politician Konstantin Kosachev. The documentary analyzes potential damaging information about Trump from the Steele dossier, and assesses whether Russian intelligence has blackmail in the form of kompromat which they could use to manipulate him. The film describes Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and discusses whether Russian cyberwarfare impacted the elections. Finally, the documentary posits how a potential fallout between Trump and Putin could impact worldwide national security. After the film's initial release, it was featured at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, in April 2017. The Guardian selected the documentary among "Monday's best TV", and The National featured it as "TV Pick of the Day". The Times Union called the film's revelations, "shocking and alarming". The documentary garnered an official response in the form of a critical statement from the Russian Embassy in London. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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