The thin-skinned, embarrassing, in-over-his-head dummy that lives in the White House hates the idea of people thinking he's a puppet of Vladimir Putin and Russia. So when BuzzFeed News published the now infamous dossier of intelligence reports that, though unverified, were deemed worthy of briefs to both then President Obama as well as president-to-be Trump, the Trump camp was furious. Serial liar Kellyanne Conway went on Seth Meyers and lied that Trump wasn't briefed on the information. They also have denied any and all of the connections between Russia and their campaign. But new information coming out of Russia raises some interesting questions about the validity of those claims.

It was reported yesterday by USA Today that a Russian intelligence officer was arrested, possibly for working with the United States.

Sergei Mikhailov, who worked for the FSB, the successor to the KGB, was arrested in December, along with Ruslan Stoyanov, a top manager for Russia's largest cybersecurity firm, according to the economic newspaper Kommersant. Stoyanov was also charged with suspicion of treason. ... The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta says Mikhailov was arrested during an FSB meeting in early December when officers came into the room, put a bag over his head and took him away.

The report goes on to say that the cause of the arrests is unclear, but that they may have been carried out because the FSB believed Mikhailov tipped the U.S. off about a server company that has been identified as allegedly being involved in cyber attacks in America. But Rachel Maddow offered an interesting theory on her show last night, where she basically presented the idea that if Mikhailov was indeed arrested for working with us, maybe that serves as some kind of corroboration for at least some aspects of what we have heard about Trump's ties to Russia. Think of it like this: If all the allegations about Trump and Russia were false, Russia would not feel the need to look for moles and arrest them dramatically. But if some piece of that information were true? Then they would look for the source of that leak.

The main argument begins at 8:26.

And if at least some piece of info about those alleged connections is true, then we can assume that right now, as we sit here, Russia has some amount of sway over our new president. And that is terrifying. Happy Friday.

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