RaveThe Arts Desk (UK)Belton devotes an entire chapter to the cultivation of Donald J. Trump by a loosely affiliated network of businessmen and brokers who all share links to the Russian intelligence agencies and criminal underworld ... But the author exercises welcome restraint in what could easily descend into a futile dot-connecting exercise. She swats away suggestions that the courting of Trump could have been a more sophisticated and long-term planned operation ...
But it is exactly the subtlety of Belton’s analysis that makes Putin’s People an almost faultless book – and an instant classic. She succeeds in legitimizing certain truths which have long been the preserve of fringe oppositionists. With her unwavering regard for fact, Belton has made the truth unassailable.
