Where did I say or imply that he was something 'new', although 'specifics' on this particular guy do clearly matter, as does the fact that he is someone around *now* and reportedly involved in the still-breaking DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion story. The slime ball Dems tried to make it appear as if Trump was colluding with the Russians, when all the time it was THEY who were.
Again, the point here is that this top advisor to Putin was reportedly working to help Hillary win the election, not Trump, as the Newsweek and BBC articles imply.
He was named by Steele as one of his key sources for the Hillary/DNC paid for dossier. The Newsweek and BBC articles I posted warning about this guy came out BEFORE his name was attached to the Steel dossier. In other words, they thought these articles would be HARMFUL to Trump and help Hillary win the election.
It should be an absolutely no-brainer to everyone here that the Russians would have way more preferred Hillary over Trump-Pence, given all that the Obama-Biden-Hillary admin did to help strengthen their hand militarily. OBH gave Putin everything he wanted and more in such critical areas as missile defense, the New Start nuke treaty, the Iran nuke deal, which Putin absolutely loved and boasted to have played a big part in formulating.
Then of course there was the Obama-Hillary Uranium-One deal, where they allowed Russia to grab control of a whopping 20% of our uranium production! And they did all that as Obama practically crippled us militarily. I can't believe that there are still people, especially on FR, that don't get this.