Trump had quite the Halloween night. Updates:
A trail: Franklin Foer reports on evidence, gathered by computer scientists over the past year, that a Trump server has been communicating with a Russian bank. The pattern is not “a smoking gun,” Foer warns. “But it deserves further explanation.”
A witness: Also on Monday night, Mother Jones published an interview with an anonymous former intelligence officer “for a Western country who specialized in Russian counterintelligence,” who has investigated “exchanges of information” between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, providing the FBI with memos to that effect.
Elliot Hannon summarizes the piece, and links to other new stories about the FBI’s interest in Trump and Russia, from NBC News and the New York Times.
A loophole: A Times investigation into Trump’s taxes, published Monday, shows that he may have used a controversial (and now illegal) workaround to avoid paying taxes on forgiven debt. Helaine Olen comments on this “shocking brazenness.”
Who knows what revelations November 1 will bring?
Rebecca
