Politics

Ex-Trump Spy Chief Cozies Up to Serbia’s Pro-Moscow Strongman

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Are the ex-president’s acolytes cultivating European autocrats and extremists for Trump’s White House return as head of a transatlantic Axis of Evil?

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By Jeff Stein

While all eyes were on Tucker Carlson’s televised swoon for Hungary’s anti-democratic, pro-Russian strongman Viktor Orban earlier this month, another prominent Donald Trump acolyte was elsewhere in Eastern Europe celebrating yet another would-be dictator who’s fallen into Moscow’s orbit, Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić.

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