A new report Tuesday in the Guardian on Trump Media and Technology Group’s funding from some incredibly fucking shady Carribbean bank owned by Russian-American scumbag Anton Postolnikov – who’s under federal investigation for money laundering – mentions a tantalizing name, but only once and in passing with no further details on the possible connection to other MAGA political corruption.

“Postolnikov, the nephew of Aleksandr Smirnov, an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, has not been charged with a crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing Paxum Bank warned of legal action for reporting the contents of the leaked documents,” wrote the Guardian’s Trump beat guy Hugo Lowell. No other mention of Smirnov appears in the article. Maybe he isn’t the same asshole who’s currently in jail awaiting trial for feeding that fake tip to the FBI about the “Biden bribery” that House Republicans tried to use to impeach Joe. Maybe “Alex Smirnov” is as common a name in Russia as “Bob Smith” is in the US.

And maybe the Guardian should’ve printed something like “(No relation to the indicted former FBI informant accused of lying to the FBI about President Biden’s son Hunter’s business ventures in Ukraine)” right after that if this Smirnov is indeed a different one. Why even mention the name at all if they’re not going to further explain its significance to what was otherwise a pretty dense story?