What the breaking Trump-Alfa Bank scandal is, in non-technical terms

Yeah, I posted an edit within an hour after posting the original article - I hadn't read the further takes mentioning that the lookups were A records. I'd only read the comments in a Reddit thread, where people were saying they couldn't understand what the article was describing.

EDIT: I've withdrawn the article. When it comes to the facts presented therein, to borrow a phrase, what was good wasn't new, and what was new wasn't good.