And Kluyshin tweeted a pic of a geopolitics-oriented "secret meeting" with Rykov in March 2016—as Rykov was posting "it's time to help the old brigand [Trump]." Rykov's first pro-Trump editorial was *published* (not written) 72 hours after Trump announced. washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/28/doe…
2/ Plus Artem—Rykov's associate—was with Trump in June '13 convincing him to come to Moscow; per a pic, was with Trump in November '13 during his Putin call and/or Trump Tower Moscow negotiation; Rykov had access to the prostitutes Schiller says (by description) Klyushin offered.
3/ Media reports confirm Rykov's online operations had Kremlin investment and backing; Rykov is in Putin's political party; Klyushin and Rykov celebrated election night together; per @ScottMStedman, Klyushin attended a Trump rally in Iowa in 2015... there are *many* nexuses here.
4/ Rykov's Facebook confession mentions the involvement, in the propaganda plot, of a Russian official who'd later appear (in exactly that role) in a classified U.S. intelligence report whose declassified edition was released in January 2017 (months after Rykov wrote about him).
5/ Klyushin was married to Alferova, who tweeted in January '14 she knew Trump was running for president and supported him—and Alferova lied to The Guardian about being a random blogger assigned to Trump in November '13, when she'd helped convince him to go to Moscow in June '13.
6/ Klyushin is pals with Emin Agalarov, whose father is Putin's real estate developer and who—working with Putin agents Gref and Kozhin—signed a secret letter-of-intent on Trump Tower Moscow in November '13; Emin met Trumps repeatedly throughout 2014 and 2015, including Trump Sr.
7/ So anyone who says "all we have is Rykov's confession" is wrong, and even analyzing Rykov's confession—in isolation—against known facts is wrong. Rykov and Kluyshin made multiple confessions, and there's evidence confirming their engagement with Trump as far back as mid-2013.
