One of President Donald Trump's stranger obsessions is his very public contempt for Mark Cuban, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner, Shark Tank investor, and expert-level pickup basketball troll. It's never been clear exactly what gave rise to this enmity—perhaps there's only room for one high-profile business-related reality TV show on NBC—but the sheer volume of the president's social media posts in which he calls Cuban a weak, boring loser indicates that Trump very much wants to be the one who ends it.

Of course, at the moment, Trump has some slightly bigger concerns. Like, say, the fact that so many of his hires and appointments—including immunity-seeking ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and current ranking Shadow President Jared Kushner—are under investigation for connections to Russia that may have improperly affected the election and subsequent governance of the nation. Despite the seeming sandbagging efforts of both House Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz and House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes in their attempts to investigate Trump and Co.'s alleged Russian ties, it's clear there's something there.

And Mark Cuban just might have an explanation.

On Saturday, he trotted out a tweetstormed theory about the president's murky alleged connections to Russia, and we have to say, this is...an entirely reasonable take! (Don't worry, we're only talking a dozen tweets here.)

Of course, Mark Cuban isn't the first pundit to posit that President Trump, a political rube, would depend so heavily on input and advice from those around him that his presidency would be very susceptible to the influence of powerful people with sinister motives. (Actually, as Cuban noted later, he himself said that less than a year ago.) But according to Cuban's rather elegant hypothesis, this very special episode of The Americans we're living through is not a vast, evil conspiracy carefully orchestrated by Donald Trump in order to consolidate global power. It's a vast, evil conspiracy carefully orchestrated by everyone around him to consolidate global power and—according to Cuban—what had been a sound business strategy is now tainting Trump's nascent political career.

Time will tell—hopefully—if Cuban's Occam's razor take bears out. Though if it does, and Trump is somewhat absolved, it still means our sitting President will have been installed as a pawn rather than having risen as a mastermind, and we're not entirely certain which looks worse for the U.S.

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