Stone, who was described as “the political dark sorcerer” in the piece, had met with the man who offered, for a price of $2 million, unspecified “political dirt” on Trump’s Democratic rival for the White House, Hillary Clinton, in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida in late May 2016, the paper reported.

Stone himself shared the information with the paper, saying he declined the offer, saying Donald Trump “doesn’t pay for anything.” In a text message to Trump campaign communications official Michael Caputo, which was seen by the paper, Stone had also described his dealings with the mysterious Russian a “waste of time.”

As expected, the Russiagate floodgates burst.

The role and the motives of the supposed Russian supplier of information about Hillary remain unclear. The Washington Post said that his name was Henry Greenberg, a Russian national who claimed to work for the FBI and who, at that time, used the alias of Henry Oknyansky.

Stone and Caputo told the investigators that Greenberg or Oknyansky –or whatever he is– was actually working for the “US law enforcement officials hostile to Trump” who had tried to set up the Republican candidate. Greenberg himself texted to the paper that he wasn’t with the FBI during the 2016 meeting in Sunny Isles Beach. He also confirmed on the phone that his offer had been declined by Stone, the paper reported.

But the main thing of course, was that he was ‘Russian’.