Image copyright Getty Images A fake spy company, faked LinkedIn profiles, a conspiracy theorist and a pro-Trump blogger are all embroiled in the latest, and strangest, story in Washington DC. On Tuesday information came to light about what appears to be a plot to try to smear special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The details are still unclear, but centre on an apparent attempt to pay women to invent allegations of sexual misconduct against Mr Mueller in an effort to discredit his probe. Mr Mueller’s spokesperson said in a statement that his team had now asked the FBI to look into the matter. So what went on, and how did we get here? The confusing events, in brief US media picked apart the plan on Tuesday, one day after Jacob Wohl, a 20-year-old conservative blogger, tweeted on Monday night that a “scandalous” story about Mr Mueller was about to break. Mr Wohl, a Fox News contributor, is best known as a right-wing Twitter provocateur and ex-hedge-fund manager who was banned by a US trading body for life earlier this year after being accused of fraud. The ‘cloud’ over the Trump White House After his tweet, a number of US-based journalists, including Medium’s Scott Stedman, began tweeting to warn people they believed Mr Wohl’s referred to a plan to spread “false accusations” about Mr Mueller. Skip Twitter post by @ScottMStedman Two weeks ago, I was contacted by a woman who claimed to be a former associate of Mueller who said that she got a
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