By Don Pelton

In the following brief (9+ min) excerpt that I extracted from Jared Ball’s one and a half hour podcast interview with investigative journalist Aaron Maté, Maté not only explains why Princeton Professor Stephen Cohen called Russiagate the “most fraudulent scandal in American history,” but also gives some interesting background on the US support of “anti-Russian fascists” in the Ukraine.

“In May of 2019 the late scholar and leader in the field of Russian Studies Stephen F. Cohen wrote that, ‘It cannot be emphasized too often: Russiagate—allegations that the American president has been compromised by the Kremlin, which may even have helped to put him in the White House—is the worst and (considering the lack of actual evidence) most fraudulent political scandal in American history.’ “(from the Jared Ball podcast, emphasis mine … Don)