When special prosecutor Robert Mueller submitted in a filing that an Olympic weightlifter promised “political synergy” to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen (an overture Cohen “did not follow up on,” according to Mueller himself), the press jumped. Here is Franklin Foer of Slate, who wrote some of the first Russiagate pieces: Cohen was talking “political synergy” with the Russians in November, 2015. November, 2015! That’s further back than most timelines of collusion usually begin.
