Author: Daniel Hopsicker

  • ‘American Made’ turns Seal story into “madcap ’80’s romp”

    ‘American Made’ turns Seal story into “madcap ’80’s romp”

      A new movie coming out in four weeks attempts to pull off a feat no other biopic from a major Hollywood studio ever has…   Called “American Made” and starring Tom Cruise as drug smuggler Barry Seal, the upcoming release has airbrushed out the very things that made its main character famous to begin…

  • AMERICAN-MADE DRECK

    AMERICAN-MADE DRECK

    A new movie coming out is supposed to be the true story of Barry Seal. It isn’t.

  • EXCLUSIVE: “8th Man was part of Putin-Bush ‘Oligarch’s Ball’

    EXCLUSIVE: “8th Man was part of Putin-Bush ‘Oligarch’s Ball’

      When Russian Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze became the eighth and last participant identified last week attending Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with Russians in Trump Tower, many wondered if there might be a reason he’d been fingered last. Turns out, there is. His “legend,” or cover story, cannot withstand close scrutiny. Kaveladze’s lawyer Scott Balber…

  • EXCLUSIVE: ‘8th Man’ in mystery purchase of U.S. Mining Co.

    It’s been widely reported that Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze, the “8th man” who attended the June 2016 meeting where Donald Trump Jr. was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, had years earlier laundered $800 million through Citibank. What’s remained unknown until now is that Citibank ALSO loaned the exact same amount, $800 million, to Kaveladze’s Russian oligarch…

  • GOP operative soliciting Russian hackers was bagman for ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’

    GOP operative soliciting Russian hackers was bagman for ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’

      The GOP operative leading a team looking for Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails—the same ones Donald Trump had publicly implored Russia to find—was active as a Republican bagman in what Hillary Clinton famously called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” during the Bill Clinton-era Troopergate sex scandals. Chicago financier and leading GOP donor Peter W. Smith…

  • Trump, Khashoggi, & Germany’s Criminal Deutsche Bank

    Trump, Khashoggi, & Germany’s Criminal Deutsche Bank

      It is public knowledge that two well-known customers of Deutsche Bank have deals considered sensitive to scrutiny. One is Donald Trump. The other is—or was— Adnan Khashoggi. The death of Saudi arms dealer and CIA fixer Adnan Khashoggi in London two weeks ago reminds the world again about Adnan Khashoggi’s rich history with fellow Palm…

  • What You Should Know About Oleg Deripaska

    What You Should Know About Oleg Deripaska

    Oleg Deripaska is a name you should know. He’s Paul Manafort Olig-Daddy, tried to turn Montenegro into a Russian colony; is suing the Associated Press, and is a Russian Mobster pretending to be a philanthropist. When Donald Trump shoved a fellow head of state at last week’s NATO Summit, it was probably not just because…

  • Meet the Russian Hackers Behind Russia-Gate

    Meet the Russian Hackers Behind Russia-Gate

    A Russia-Gate bombshell per day.  Watergate burglars Gordon Liddy & E. Howard Hunt were already famous by now. So why aren’t the Russian hackers? 

  • U.S. Catches Russian Hackers Napping on Vacation

    U.S. Catches Russian Hackers Napping on Vacation

    The idea that the Russian hackers who tipped the U.S. election to Trump were victims of a U.S. ‘deep state’ propaganda meme would never have occurred to the genius-level tech-savvy Russian busted for cybercrime recently by U.S. agents. He just wanted to take a vacation.