All you need to ask is "Cui Bono?" The same relationship exist between the GOP in House and Senate, and Vlad Putin. It makes sense of the otherwise self-destructive policy choices made by GOP members in a way that simple power to deny does not.
It is why so much effort has gone into obscuring or denying the Steele dossier and the actual conclusions of Mueller's investigation. To say nothing of the relationship of Cambridge Analytica to Putin and Trump.
Footnote for those who may have forgotten:
The Trump voter data operation took the unprecedented step of hiring a British military contractor to handle its target audience analysis services for voter targeting. Previously, political campaigns had the good sense to keep our voter data in the United States. It turns out that Cambridge Analytica may be some sort of a facade to obscure its parent company, SCL GROUP LIMITED, a military contractor, purveyor of psychological operations, or PSYOPs in military lingo. Their elections division, SCL Elections in London, is the “registered data controller” for Cambridge Analytica, the company that claims to have big data dossiers on every registered voter in America. The company allegedly does its “election management” work around the globe, with political clients in places such as Kenya and Mexico and is verifiably contracted as a vendor for government entities like NATO and the US STATE DEPT.
That connection runs through Steve Bannon and And Robert Mercer, the secretive US hedge-fund billionaire and Republican donor who funded the GOP data manipulation project. Both of whom have very significant ties to similar Russian efforts to influence British voters regarding Brexit, and Tory elections to the House of Commons.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump
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