Seth begins unraveling the tangled tale of Donald Trump's business endeavors over the last three decades, identifying the rogues’ gallery of shady characters he associated with along the way. From his dealings with already-convicted felon Felix Sater in the early 2000s to his dealings with now-convicted felon Paul Manafort in the late 2000s to his dealings with now-convicted felon and disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen in the 2010s to his indirect dealings with international fugitive Dmitry Firtash over the last 48 months, Trump has a made a practice of dealing with career criminals who are also first- and second-order Kremlin agents with ties to Russian mafia. Luckily for keeping the story straight—albeit less lucky for America's national security and federal jurisprudence—the metanarrative that these and other interrelationships, data-points, and key news items tell couldn't be clearer.