Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale has published a comprehensive explanation of the situation on his Substack blog, Timothy Snyder, Thinking About, The Specter of 2016. Here is a key paragraph that summarizes the connections between McGonigal and the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska:
The reporting on this so far seems to miss the larger implications. One of them is that Trump’s historical position looks far cloudier. In 2016, Trump’s campaign manager (Manafort) was a former employee of a Russian oligarch (Deripaska), and owed money to that same Russian oligarch. And the FBI special agent (McGonigal) who was charged with investigating the Trump campaign’s Russian connections then went to work (according to the indictment) for that very same Russian oligarch (Deripaska). This is obviously very bad for Trump personally. But it is also very bad for FBI New York, for the FBI generally, and for the United’States of America.
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