There’s been some interesting buzz recently about what would normally be a crackpot conspiracy theory: the idea that Trump is actively working with Putin and is supported by Russia in his presidential campaign. We’ve already seen the quid pro quo: Trump backs off the US commitment to NATO and scares the hell out of Russia border countries.

Josh Marshall at TPM has written a few posts on this, concerning potential connections through Manafort and an obvious lack of reluctance working with dictators. But no smoking gun.

This, however, is the start of one: the timing of the release of DNC emails seems targeted at reopening the Bernie/Hillary rift in advance of the DNC, and forensic legwork points to Russia as the source.

Franklin Foer on Wikileaks and the DNC (with tweets) · DemFromCT