Russian State media pundits and personalities are claiming that Hadley Gamble, the experienced CNBC journalist who interviewed President Vladimir Putin last week, was part of an American “special operation” designed to sway and tantalize the Russian leader.
Putin started the pile-on himself by implying that Gamble was too beautiful to understand his remarks during an on-stage interview at a Russian Energy Week book by former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, White House adviser Fiona Hill believed Putin had likely selected an attractive female interpreter “specifically to distract” Trump. On Sunday’s episode of a Russian state TV show Moscow.Kremlin.Putin., reporter Pavel Zarubin pondered, “If Russia is sending beautiful translators to American presidents, then who is coming from the United States?”
Journalist and former politician Mikhail Markelov, who previously hosted a TV program entitled Sovershenno Sekretno ("Top Secret") agreed with Skabeeva’s characterization and described Gamble as America’s “secret weapon.” Markelov surmised that the attractive journalist was “sent” as a counter-response to Putin’s translator, whom he described as “a modest Russian woman.” None of the program’s participants mentioned that Boyarskaya has previously posed for a risqué photoshoot that garnered media attention.
By contrast, Gamble’s appearance and attire were mercilessly picked apart on numerous state TV programs. Pro-Kremlin propagandists portrayed a seasoned professional journalist as a mere honeypot—a covert agent aiming to use sexual attraction to compromise an intended target. On Sunday’s broadcast of Vesti Nedeli, the notorious propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov—best known for stating that “Russia is the only country in the world that is realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash”—chimed in with his borderline obsessive critique of the American journalist.
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