Beautiful, I’m telling you THE plan was, as Donald Trump might put it, “yuuuge”: a statue of Christopher Columbus taller than the Statue of Liberty, donated by the Russian government, to be built on the banks of New York’s Hudson river. “It’s got $ 40m-worth of bronze in it,” Mr Trump bragged of the design by Zurab Tsereteli, a Moscow-based monumental sculptor, in 1997. But the project never came to fruition. The statue found a home only this year, in Puerto Rico (see picture).
Now Russia is hoping Mr Trump’s run at the American presidency will prove more successful, and the Kremlin appears to be trying to give him a boost. American officials believe Russia hacked the e-mails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that appeared in July on WikiLeaks. The Washington Post reports that American spooks are investigating “a broad covert Russian operation” to sow distrust in the elections. Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA, suggested that Mr Trump had become an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation”.
That may be taking things a bit far….
