Anthony J. Gaughan (Drake): Trump, Twitter, and the Russians: The Growing Obsolescence of Federal Campaign Finance Law. Russia’s social media meddling in the United States was just the tip of the iceberg. Christopher Steele, the ex-spy behind the Trump-Russia dossier, left a clue for Mueller. “A long winter”: White House aides divided over scope, risks of Russia probe. Thread: “I think it’s possible that the view that the Russian sow-chaos-and-promote-the-authoritarian-candidate election strategy was substantially independent of all the financial entanglements btw Trump and Russia”. The hidden history of Trump’s first trip to Moscow: In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union — the KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.
