Connecting the Dots

In case you missed it last week, Damir Marusic and Karina Orlova mapped out in some detail the web of relationships linking the various Russians attending the now famous meeting attended by Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner early last summer. From their piece:

Digging through the murky networks connecting the people who attended that mysterious meeting at Trump Tower last year won’t provide the definitive “smoking gun” that so many in Washington are desperate for, tying the President’s campaign to some fanciful plot hatched inside the Kremlin to subvert American democracy. But at the same time, it casts serious doubts on arguments that there is nothing to see in the meeting itself. On the contrary, there is plenty to see. Looking at these networks recasts both our understanding of the real nature of Russian involvement in the 2016 election, and of what having a purely transactionally minded businessman for a President might mean for the United States—whether there was “collusion” or not.

To help orient you as you read the piece, we’ve put together this handy infographic (now also embedded in the original):

We encourage you to read the whole thing.

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