If you’ve found it difficult to keep up with all the twists and turns in the investigation of alleged collusion between Russia and Team Trump, it’s probably because the narrative is so riddled with contradictions.

Alleged leaks first told us that a July 2016 trip to Moscow by Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page was the catalyst for the FBI investigation into collusion. More than half a year later, different reporters from the same news outlet report that it was, rather, boasting by a drunk George Papadopoulos about Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton that sparked the probe.