Jon Chait has created a well-researched, more or less authoritative timeline of Trump's involvement with Russia. What is amazing is that despite it's length, it doesn't begin to cover all of the suspicious connections between Trump and Russia - especially the massive monetary connections between Trump and Russian interests.
Chait's work is important, because he flips the basic assumption that has guided most media analysis of the Trump/Russia story. Namely, the media has largely refused to entertain the idea that Trump really is a Russian asset in the Oval Office. That's bad political thriller material, not "serious journalism." What Chait does is simply entertain the notion that perhaps Trump IS a Russian asset, and then look to see if the fact line up. And boy do they.
Trump, ironically, has gotten a pass for his lack of intelligence, his narcissism and his ignorance of American governance, when perhaps he does know something: what Putin has on him.
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