David Corn with the receipts: Kash Patel got paid by Putin's propagandists.

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To find out more about the curious case of FBI chief Kash Patel receiving $25,000 from a Ukrainian-Russian-American filmmaker who was part of a Putin-financed propaganda operation, I knocked on the door of a house in Beverly Hills. Here's what happened.

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1. With Trump and his henchmen, "All roads lead to Putin" (Nancy Pelosi)

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2. Apparently Putin owns our government

And

Apparently, there isn’t anything we can do about it.

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3. Wow - Republicons are corrupt to the core

Thank you David C, and Mother J. for this story.

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4. Vladdy pays for America's demise in Kash

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12. Put in Kash

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5. komrades all ....*nt*

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6. Link to the Mother Jones article

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kash-patel-fbi-trump-tucker-carlson-russia-ukraine-putin/

So, according to Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent.

Lopatonok also appears to have been doing business—or trying to do business— in Russia. Last year, he and Tomilova set up a company there called Global 3 Pictures, according to Russian corporate records. This is the same name as a corporation they established in California in 2011. The Russian firm, according to the records, intended to produce films and television shows. The corporate listings note that the firm maintained a bank account at state-owned VTB, a bank subject to US sanctions. The records also note that Global 3 Pictures failed to submit a tax return.

Mother Jones sent Lopatonok and Patel each a list of questions and a request for comment. Neither responded.

The All The President’s Men series was loaded with Russian connections. Its director, Sean Stone, a son of Oliver Stone, hosted a show on RT America, the Russian state-funded network until it was shut down in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For this docuseries, Stone conducted the on-air interviews with Simona Mangiante, the wife of George Papadopoulos, a Trump foreign policy adviser who pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents during the Russia investigation and served 12 days in federal prison.

In another Global Tree Picture film released last year, Hunter’s Laptop—Requiem for Ukraine, a documentary about alleged Biden corruption in Ukraine, Mangiante interviewed Andrii Derkach, whom the US Treasury Department sanctioned in 2020 for serving as a “Russian agent” and spreading disinformation to influence the American election that year—that is, disseminating false stories about then-candidate Joe Biden. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence later noted that Putin “had purview over” Derkach’s activities, meaning Moscow was running an operation to discredit Biden and help Trump. With this film, Lopatonok and Mangiante amplified the phony assertions peddled by an identified Russian agent.

The scriptwriting team for All the President’s Men included Lopatonok, Tomilova, and George Eliason, an editor at a website called Intelligencer that posts conservative and Putin-friendly material. Lopatonok and Tomilova are on its editorial board.

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7. Thanks.

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10. Nauseating.

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11. Just in case, an archive link

https://archive.is/y8VVm

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8. Would Patel pass a security check in a normal administration with this episode?

I suspect not. But now he's the fucking FBI Director.

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13. Excellent question

In Dump's administration, criminals are checking criminals

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9. The US is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Russian govt.

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14. Buncha pukes.

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15. Somehow I thought KP was fired but I guess it was just from ATF 😹

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16. Bluesky link for those practicing musk avoidance-

To find out more about the curious case of FBI chief Kash Patel receiving ,000 from a Ukrainian-Russian-American filmmaker who was part of a Putin-financed propaganda operation, I knocked on the door of a house in Beverly Hills.

Here's what happened.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-C...

— David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) 2025-04-28T18:30:57.313Z

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17. K&R