By Tim Mak
One of the better-connected, more knowledgeable people on the ties
between the Kremlin and Trump Tower—other than the investigators
currently working full-time on the topic—is a ramen shop owner named
Jeff Jetton.
Over the past few months, Jetton, who helped found the popular Washington, D.C. noodle restaurant Toki Underground, has inserted himself smack-dab into the investigation of possible Trump-Russia connections.
Over the past few months, Jetton, who helped found the popular Washington, D.C. noodle restaurant Toki Underground, has inserted himself smack-dab into the investigation of possible Trump-Russia connections.
Feeling disillusioned
after Trump’s inauguration, Jetton posted a story about Russia on his
Facebook account. A friend commented that he had known a figure in the
Trump orbit personally. Jetton started reaching out.
“If you’re
good at piecing things together, why don’t you just do some of this shit
yourself?” said Jetton, who spoke to The Daily Beast wearing an
olive-drab Harley Davidson jacket with a #1 patch made out of an
American flag on his right shoulder. “I just started reaching out to
people. I’m not really a journalist, but I sort of used this social
media, blogging environment that I belong to, to start talking to people
conversationally.”
His disarming manner seemed to win people
over. Jetton started texting Carter Page, an early Trump campaign
foreign-policy adviser, and interviewed him about evolution for a pop-culture blog he’s affiliated with, Brightest Young Things.
The interview gave an early hint of Page’s defense over allegations
that he was a potential link between Team Trump and the Kremlin: that
he’s the victim of a neo-Red Scare.
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