Russiagate daily briefing: Wikicreeps!
Just when you thought things couldn’t get crazier…
Nigel Farage met with Julian Assange yesterday. Josh Marshall has questions – as Sean Spicer ducks a few of them. And it turns out that leaked e-mails show Farage and Assange are BFFs!
Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak denied meeting with Trump or his campaign officials in a speech made last October.
Roger Stone remains Trump’s propaganda minister on Putin TV.
The FBI “is still investigating ‘odd’ computer link between Trump organization and Russia” as Comey briefs top lawmakers
Another possible meeting between Jeff Sessions and Ambassador Kislyak comes to light.
The New York Times reports Jon Huntsman “is said to accept post” as Ambassador to Russia.
And Natasha Bertrand explains why many of Trump’s hardcore supporters love Putin: they’re racists, and see Russia as “a beacon for white nationalists.”