Konstantin Rykov boasted about his four year plan to “free America and make it great again.”

In his November 2016 Facebook post, Rykov said he worked with a team of hacker groups and Wikileaks.
New evidence paints a picture of Rykov not as a Putin-supporting blogger but a plausibly deniable asset for the the Kremlin.
During the 2012 election, Vladimir Putin appointed Rykov as a “trusted confidant”, granting him access to the President and indicating a level of trust by Russian government.

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Days after the 2016 US election, Rykov posted on Facebook a detailed story of how he received a Direct Message from Trump in 2012, the beginning of a four year plan to elect Trump to the Presidency.
It’s time for wonderful stories. I’ll tell you about (now it’s possible) how Donald Trump and I decided to free America and make it great again. This took us as much as 4 years and 2 days…
At the beginning of the brave and romantic [story] was not very much. A pair of hacker groups, civil journalists from WikiLeaks and political strategist Mikhail Kovalev.
The next step was to develop a system for transferring tasks and information, so that no intelligence and NSA could burn it.
Since the moment Trump announced his candidacy, Rykov was an ardent public supporter. In the Washington Post, Rykov was described as a “Putin supporter”, in The Atlantic he’s portrayed as a “ pro-Kremlin blogger.” A fuller picture paints a different story of Rykov — an asset utilized by the Kremlin to do its dirty work with a level of deniability.