1. More revelations about the Trump crew’s ties to Putin, and more Trump crew lies about those ties, raise even more questions.
2. Bannon has Breitbart run a deliberately concocted batshit crazy conspiracy theory.
3. Trump, who ignores PDBs, reads Breitbart and tweets the deliberately concocted batshit crazy conspiracy theory.
4. The media report on Trump’s tweets about the deliberately concocted batshit crazy conspiracy theory.
5. People with functioning gray matter scoff at the deliberately concocted batshit crazy conspiracy theory.
6. The Trump crew and its propagandists double down on the deliberately concocted batshit crazy conspiracy theory.
7. The Trump crew’s obedient servants in Congress, who won’t investigate what the actual intelligence community is reporting, announce that they will investigate the deliberately concocted batshit crazy conspiracy theory.
8. The media cover all of it, even at times scoffing.
9. The deliberately concocted batshit crazy conspiracy theory is now a thing, a subject of conversation, a top story in the news—and a third of the country believes it.