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Part Two: Steven Seagal Is So Much Worse Than You'd Ever Imagine

Behind the Bastards

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Stephen Seagal's Most Durable and Most Consecutive Friendship

Stephen Seagal's friendship with Vladimir Putin started with a guy named Bob Van Runkle who ran the company Doors to Hollywood, which specialized in taking famous people over to Russia. It really does seem like his job was basically to make famous people sympathetic to a number of Russian and Eastern oligarchic power brokers in order to push a very specific and particular political agenda. He also introduced Oleg Derapaska, who is a he's in a Ukrainian aluminum tycoon who was Paulafort's entry into that part of the world. Jim Carrey has been at parties with Trump and stuff too. There's some weird connections there.

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