In the months leading up to the 2016 election, Halper famously approached and questioned – sometimes amiably, sometimes aggressively—two men who became linchpins of the now-debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theories: George Papadopoulos, whose supposed knowledge of Russian “dirt” on Hillary..…

The long Russia investigations (FBI, House, Senate, Mueller) revealed as many legitimate concerns about Democratic collusion and misdeeds (the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded dossier, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorization of surveillance on a political opponent,..…