Too unbelievable to be true

Author Kurt Eichenwald describes an incident that shows there was indeed collusion between the nasty guy’s campaign and Russian operatives. Here’s his summary:

Wikileaks obtains hacked Podesta emails.

Russian propagandists manipulate one email to make it say what it does not.

Russian reddit account pushes it onto internet.

Twitter account Mueller says in Russian scheme (@TEN_GOP) starts tweeting email.

Sputnik disinformation news service picks up bogus email from @TEN_GOP and writes bogus article.

Within an hour or so, Trump is reading the bogus email at a rally.

I write story exposing.

A group of journalists coordinate an attack on me by email.

Sputnik launches an attack on me accusing me of irrational crimes and lies.

Trump campaign immediately emails link to article from a Russian disinformation site to reporters, along with accusations against me.

The New York Observer, owned by Trump's son in law Kushner picks up the Sputnik attacks and goes after me.

Reporters couldn't see it back then. The importance of this - a back and forth link between Russian hackers, disinformation outlets and Trump campaign - seemed too unbelievable to be considered as true. But with the revelation by Mueller that @TEN_GOP was part of Russian scheme, someone must ask Trump - where did he get the bogus email? From @TEN_GOP, from Sputnik, or from some third party? And why his campaign pushing stories from a Russian disinformation site to attack the story?

Sputnik is a Russian propaganda site. @TEN_GOP is a Twitter account that posed as the Tennesee Republican Party but was actually Russian.