MSNBC is surging
To appreciate the focus
of the “Rachel Maddow Show” on the Mueller legal plume, consider the
name of Alex van der Zwaan. Perhaps the most international guy ever
conceived, he’s a 30-something Dutch man who was born in Belgium,
formerly worked in the London branch of the law firm Skadden, Arps,
Slate, Meagher & Flom and speaks Russian, French, Dutch and English.
His entry into Mueller’s world came through Paul Manafort, the former
Trump campaign chairman who made a handsome living in part by making
corrupt Ukrainian politicians look okay. Manafort facilitated a report by Skadden that whitewashed the actions of pro-Russia, former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych, who had jailed an opposition leader.
