Good news/Bad news. Good news is that the Rykov story indirectly has made the Washington Post.

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Bad news is that the author of the piece essentially shrugged it off as unsubstantiated nonsense, and writes off Seth Abramson as a conspiracy theorist as opposed to someone who does some top notch researching.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/12/06/people-cant-stop-reading-a-professors-theory-of-a-trump-russia-conspiracy-true-or-not/?utm_term=.94ea36ce4b21

Other parts of Abramson’s analysis may be better grounded. A Forbes article supports his contention that Putin-connected developers talked about a real estate deal with Trump during the Moscow trip. And Abramson notes that one of Trump’s hosts in 2013, Emin Agalarov, was later implicated in arranging a meeting in which Trump campaign officials sought to obtain politically helpful information from Russia.

But these facts are sprinkled into his threads with more fantastic sounding claims. Read deep down into Abramson’s Twitter feed and you’ll find what he describes as a “confession” from a “Kremlin agent,” who detailed a five-year plot to help Trump win the election in a public Facebook post.

It’s dramatic stuff. But would those involved in a Kremlin-orchestrated plot to put Trump in the White House really spill the beans unprompted on Facebook?

Absolutely, says Abramson — and tried to explain the difference between a conspiracy theory, which he deplores, and the “criminal conspiracy” he asserts Trump involved himself in during the campaign.

“This was very unsophisticated and the people involved were largely moronic,” he told The Post. “I’ve represented thousands of criminal defendants and what they have in common is they were very unsophisticated, and we might say stupid. Watergate was stupid. The people involved were stupid. President Nixon was very stupid, and that’s how he got caught.”

The worst thing that can be said about Seth Abramson is that he uses a terrible platform for his research. (Mega Tweets are just awful to read.) But the guy is really good at what he does, and has been getting a lot out there that has gone underreported and under the radar for months.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Is this why Murdoch ordered his

WSJ Editorial Board to defend Trump and trash Mueller. Similar story popped some time back on another source that was re-posted here.