What More Do We Know About L’Affaire Russe?

Lawfare has an update of its seven theories of the Russia investigation, dropping two that are no longer plausible given what we now know.

“It is possible to look at this behavior, in general, as evidence that suggests that the underlying facts of L’Affaire Russe must be very bad—that is, that we must be at the more menacing end of the spectrum (perhaps Theory #6 or #7), not the more innocent end. Who, after all, triggers a major probe into obstruction of justice in order to impede an investigation that’s going nowhere anyway?”

“On the other hand, it’s also possible to look at the obstruction investigation as simply a matter that Trump blundered into and to see his interactions with law enforcement more as a feature of his personality than his actual vulnerability from L’Affaire Russe.”

“The bottom line is that the spectrum of possibility has narrowed but remains broad.”