Recently declassified documents indicate leaks of classified information to reporters were designed to portray Trump as in league with Russia.  

Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia.  

Barack Obama got enough electoral votes in the right places to become president in 2008. But the truth is, Americans didn’t really elect Barack Obama the man. They elected the idea of a well-educated black man, the first to govern in the nation's history.

Voters did not know that Obama, the man, is not really a good person. And, truth is, the 72-year-old Republican alternative that year wasn't all that exciting. //

Then, win or lose, former presidents usually go away. They served the purpose they were given and had carefully sought with intent, ambition, and other people’s money. They get overpaid to hire ghostwriters to create their memoirs. They construct a presidential library, give speeches, and never drive their own car again. //

Most ex-presidents depart the Swamp. Not Barack Obama, who was only 54 when he left office. Note to Self: Young ex-presidents tend to hang around. //

Barack and Michelle disregarded their own apocalyptic warnings about global warming. They bought two estates right on the ocean, one on Martha’s Vineyard and another in Hawaii.

But surprisingly, Obama also bought a D.C. mansion. And now we know why: He wasn’t done with his Swamp work, engineering “the radical transformation” of America that he had promised even before his first election.

Today, thanks to stunning revelations by the current Director of National Intelligence, we now know it was Obama and his henchmen embedded in the Deep State in 2016 who concocted and anonymously drove the malicious, fictitious Russiagate hoax in a receptive media. All in direct contradiction of the intelligence community's findings.

The goal was to paint Donald Trump as a perverted Putin puppet to undermine and cripple the Republican’s first administration that threatened Obama’s gains and Democrat power. //

The signs of Obama’s arrogant and malevolent side have been there all along. Sensing victory just before the 2008 election, the Democrat candidate addressed a Missouri crowd so enthused that it would have cheered an Obama burp:

We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.

Such ambition was impressive. At the time, that D.C. rookie was not even halfway through his first and last Senate term, basically a political unknown nationally. But this single sentence of 13 words unveiled a scheme far beyond the plans of a standard incoming president. //

There were other signs of concern. During the 2008 campaign, Michelle Obama, a native of Chicago's South Side who got to go to Princeton and Harvard, declared:

For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.

She's still complaining.

Officials warned the Steele dossier suffered from ‘POOR SOURCE TRADECRAFT’ and compared it to the National Enquirer.

Senior intelligence officials strenuously fought the demands of former FBI Director James Comey and other Obama intelligence chiefs to include the false and unverified Steele dossier in an official assessment of Russian activities ordered by President Barack Obama in the closing weeks of his presidency, records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist show. The records, which are related to ongoing criminal investigations into Comey and other top intelligence officials for their roles in launching the Russia collusion hoax, provide damning evidence of Obama intelligence chiefs’ malfeasance beyond the explosive information released Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Five years ago today, the so-called ‘primary sub-source’ behind the infamous Steele dossier was identified, and the entire hoax collapsed. //

Five years ago, a group of internet sleuths uncovered what remains the single biggest breakthrough in the Russiagate hoax: the identification of Igor Danchenko. Danchenko was the so-called “primary sub-source” behind the infamous Steele dossier, a Clinton campaign subcontractor whose fabrications formed the backbone of the fraudulent Trump-Russia collusion narrative. The FBI had buried his identity deep inside its classified files, hoping it would never come to light. But when it did, the entire hoax collapsed. From start to finish, it had all been made up.

That breakthrough didn’t happen in isolation. It rested on years of meticulous work by a broader community of independent researchers, writers, and investigators — all outside the corporate media, working without institutional backing or access to classified leaks. People like Mollie Hemingway, Margot Cleveland, and many others uncovered key pieces of the Russiagate puzzle while the legacy media actively worked to spread the hoax. //

Five years ago today, the Russiagate hoax was buried for good. The supposed Russian insider who fueled a national panic turned out to be a broke think tank wannabe saying whatever it took to get paid.

The entire scandal was a fiction stitched together by Clinton operatives, blessed by Obama himself, and weaponized by government agencies and their media allies. It wasn’t exposed by a Pulitzer-winning journalist or a congressional committee. It was exposed by a handful of internet researchers with day jobs.

And that’s the real story of Russiagate’s end.

When President Trump first started ranting, really out of nowhere, about the so-called “Epstein files” being “made up” by his Democrat predecessors, as well as former F.B.I. Director James Comey, it was bizarre and suspiciously defensive. It’s now a lot less weird and a lot less suspicious.

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday on a “leather-bound book” containing, among other things, a doodle of a naked woman’s body framing an odd “typewritten” note, both supposedly penned by Trump and addressed to convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. The Journal called the letter and illustration “bawdy” and described the signature as “a squiggly ‘Donald’ below [the drawing’s] waist, mimicking pubic hair.” //

Trump told the Journal that the note, included in a book allegedly compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday, was fraudulent. “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” he said. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.” //

We also know that this all sounds almost exactly like another story involving the F.B.I. and a newly discovered document that was damaging to Trump: the case of Paul Manafort and the “black ledger.” //

The two events are almost comically identical. An office space in Ukraine was pillaged by political activists, but what luck! A little paper book was eventually recovered — oh, my! Inside is damaging information associated with Trump! In 2025, as Trump set about quickly restructuring the executive branch of the federal government and attempting to hold corrupt Democrats accountable, well, I’ll be — a leather-bound book that makes him look like the dear friend of a notorious pedophile. //

And subsequent reporting by the Times acknowledged that the ledger may very well have been fraudulent, noting in 2022 that there was “the view within the Ukrainian government that a Trump presidency would be potentially ruinous, and the admission that the ledger had not been fully authenticated and did not prove actual payments made to Manafort.”

I think I understand what Trump was saying about the Epstein files being “made up” now.

Gabbard followed up her initial thread with the announcement that her office was turning over all of the documents to the Department of Justice for a criminal referral. //

The issue I am raising is not a partisan issue. It is one that concerns every American. The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government. Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people. Their egregious abuse of power and blatant rejection of our Constitution threatens the very foundation and integrity of our democratic republic. No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again. The American people’s faith and trust in our democratic republic and therefore the future of our nation depends on it. As such, I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve.

The anti-Trump operation escalated to a coordinated assault involving the highest levels of government, about which we still know nearly nothing. //

First came the long-awaited release of the “Trump-Russia binder,” a trove of intelligence documents that was supposed to have been released on Donald Trump’s last day at the White House in January 2021. The “binder” filled in crucial gaps about the Hillary Clinton campaign’s dirty tricks operation.

Among other things, it detailed how Christopher Steele knowingly lied to the FBI and how the Alfa Bank hoax — one of the most absurd allegations of secret Trump-Putin communications — was laundered through official channels. The binder was provided to The Federalist, which made it publicly available.

Then came an even more stunning release from Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office: an internal FBI report confirming that Nellie Ohr — a Clinton-linked operative and the wife of senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr — had lied to Congress. The report also detailed her central role in fusing campaign-generated disinformation with federal law enforcement.

But the real shock wasn’t Ohr’s role. It was the revelation of what might be the FBI’s most corrupt mechanism yet: a black-hole filing system for anything that undermined the Trump-Russia collusion narrative or vindicated Trump and his allies.

What Grassley's investigation, and pit bull intensity, has produced is evidence that the FBI and the Department of Justice bureaucracy are partisan Democrat organizations who repeatedly punish conservative people for crimes while letting those on the left go free. Compare and contrast the kid glove treatment received by Nellie Ohr with the hammering given Roger Stone for similar offenses of the Russia Hoax. In the same way misdemeanor defendants for January 6 crimes were subjected to pre-dawn raids, held without bail, and imprisoned in brutal conditions while no one showed any curiosity about the Antifa and BLM goons who attacked police and police stations during the summer of 2020.

Keep in mind that this cover up happened on the watch of Donald Trump's own Attorney General and his personal choice to be FBI Director.

“Ohr never suffered consequences for advancing the phony Trump-Russia narrative and attempting to cover up her involvement in the hoax,” Grassley said in a statement. “Yet time and again, the American justice system has been weaponized against President Trump and his associates with reckless abandon.” He also noted that “The DOJ’s inaction on Nellie Ohr’s criminal referral — despite the obviously incriminating evidence provided in the FBI’s own analysis — undermines public trust in the rule of law."

Not only did Ohr not suffer any consequences for her lying, she never will. The statute of limitations on that offense has passed and she is home free.

If Comey were held to the standard that he and his fellow coup plotters and lawfare insurrectionists have held Trump, he likely would have been prosecuted many times over for his abuses of power; his leadership in what amounted to a conspiracy to destroy a president — including to systematically violate or deprive the commander in chief and those in his orbit of their rights; and his running of information operations against the American people aimed at interfering in our domestic politics and defrauding the country. //

Comey’s animus towards Trump is beyond well-established. He is not ignorant of what 86 47 means. Nor is he unaware of the fact that the president faced two assassination attempts in the last year. For all these reasons, an argument could be made that Comey is being shown grace by the Trump administration in merely being investigated by the Secret Service over a post obviously calling for his assassination to his followers.

If he is to be interviewed, as my colleague at RealClearPolitics Susan Crabtree has suggested may occur, one can bet he won’t be ambushed and trapped in a bid to do to him what his FBI did to Flynn. Odds are, Comey will enjoy the protections of a system that he did not afford his own political opponents and avoid prosecution.

Curiously, Martin is interested in another episode in Zelinsky's life. "We would also like to speak with you about your 2012 service to the Peking University Transnational School of Law, including what Chinese national contacts you made during that period and those you remained in contact with during the Mueller investigation and since."

We must assume that Martin knows much about Zelinsky's ties to China, otherwise he wouldn't have asked the question. //

Martin is going after Zelinsky because his goose is cooked. He submitted a false statement to try to get Roger Stone a 7-to-9-year sentence for being less than candid with Congress. It was a petty and vindictive act, much like lying to a judge to get Papadopoulos thrown in the slammer. Maybe we will eventually unravel the origins of Russiagate and take righteous vengeance on the perpetrators. //

If the Chinese were embedded in Mueller's investigation, it potentially invalidates the Russiagate narrative as we know it, introduces another foreign player, and possibly leads in directions that Hillary Clinton and her cronies would rather not see it go.

The New York Times continues to cover up government corruption, on April 11 hitting FBI Director Kash Patel for suspending analyst Brian Auten nearly a decade after Auten helped Democrats frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset. The NYT headline reads, “F.B.I. Suspends Employee on Patel’s So-Called Enemies List,” not something accurate such as “FBI Suspends Employee Who Illegally Abused Government Power To Protect Democrat Presidential Candidates.”

Natalie Winters, co-host of "Steve Bannon's War Room," had Steele served up by Morgan on a silver platter and just eviscerated him for his efforts to sabotage President Donald Trump.

Steele, in the early part of the segment involving several commentators, made his case that Trump was engaged in a "pro-Russian Ukrainian peace plan."

Winters lay in wait until Morgan went to her for comment. And, like an agitated bull behind the gate at a bullfight, she came out horns down, full-sprint.

She began:

I know Christopher Steel probably wanted to go down in history as someone that [sic] colluded with the Clinton campaign to take down President Donald J. Trump, but I really think that you represent probably the ultimate grifter in the American political space.

She accused Steele of trying to "sabotage" Trump's peace efforts, and mocked his previous efforts to paint Trump as a Russian asset.

According to the whistleblower, two female FBI undercover employees infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff. //

This was not part of Crossfire Hurricane, this was reportedly a different operation.

The whistleblower agent “personally knew” that Mr. Comey ordered an FBI investigation into Mr. Trump and that Mr. Comey “personally directed it,” according to the disclosure. //

anon-adwq
21 minutes ago
This operation agains Trump was launched in 2015. The fact that all Biden's pardons of his stooges and his family begin in 2014 makes sense now.

The Dark Lord anon-adwq
15 minutes ago
Yes. John Brennan also started his overseas operations against Page, Papadopolous, Clovis, and Caputo also began in late 2015 or early 2016. One of those also allegedly involved a honeypot, either with Joseph Mifsud or Stefan Halper.

Bonchie @bonchieredstate
So 51 intelligence officials signed a letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, and they did so not because they had actual evidence but because they wanted to help get Joe Biden elected.

That...seems like an issue.

George Papadopoulos @GeorgePapa19
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Feb 1
🚨JUST IN: A leaked email from John Brennan verifies that the 51 intelligence agents that endorsed the Hunter Biden laptop letter did it with the specific intent of enabling Biden to mislead the American public during his election campaign.
9:04 AM · Feb 2, 2025
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President Donald Trump is taking further action against the 50 former intelligence officials who falsely suggested Hunter Biden’s laptop was “part of a Russian disinformation campaign,” instructing agencies to also ban those individuals from stepping foot in secure U.S. government facilities, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire.

The Jan. 29 cabinet memorandum, first obtained by The Daily Wire, expands Trump’s day-one executive order, which revoked the security clearance for the 50 individuals. Sent “on behalf of the President,” it orders the country’s top national security agencies to “revoke unescorted access to secure U.S. Government facilities from the 50 former intelligence officials named in the Executive Order.” //

NorCalGC
6 hours ago
This seems to suggest that one or more on the list visited a secure facility after they had their security clearances revoked. //

It’s a dry heat
5 hours ago
"despite the fact they had no solid evidence to support that conclusion."

That suggests they had some "evidence" but it just wasn't "solid." The truth is far more damning. They not only didn't have any "solid evidence," but that they had no evidence at all, and what evidence there was established precisely the contrary. There was ample evidence, solid, concrete, irrefutable and otherwise, that the Hunter laptop was genuine and that its owner was a genuine criminal, drug addled dipwad. //

GBenton
5 hours ago edited
Trump should have a gallows built with 51 nooses just to send a message to the traitors.

Getting your hall passes yanked is getting off far easier than you deserve.

What happened in 2020 was beyond election interference. It was a color revolution and with China and Iran and other nations involved I'd argue they are guilty of treason.

They may not actually be publicly hanged but in an earlier era they know they could have and they should be reminded of that.

In the last 20 years or so people got waaaay too comfortable engaging in treasonous and anti-American activities and that really does need to stop.

How hard they need to learn that lesson is up to them for now.

Is this too harsh of language? Welp, they tried to imprison Trump after convicting him of made up crimes and then they tried assasination - and they stole the last election.

I'd argue that not being clear about the boundaries is how we got where we are.

Keep in mind, we won in 2024 but if we'd lost the country would have been lost or we might have had to fight our way back to freedom. It's all fun and games until the Marxists consolidate power and we MUST never let that happen.

We won the Cold War. If WE became the force for Communism around the world humanity is basically over.

Play time for traitors is over. And Trump appears to be serious about making the necessary reforms and kicking out the bad actors. Full disclosure of what they did is next, IMO.

GBenton NavyVet
an hour ago
How I really feel is we need to make people fear the consequences of betraying the people and engaging in sedition, corruption, and yes, treason. There's a long list of folks who did all of the above who are used to being rewarded for it and they need to get their minds right.

I'm being somewhat tongue in cheek about the gallows, somewhat, since these cretins got Americans imprisoned and even killed during the Biden years in an illegitimate presidency that could have sent our nation into an age of darkness.

Call me crazy, but we really need to make sure that never happens again and bad actors respond to consequences so examples need to be made. Destroy their reputations, strip their access to power and money (already in progress), and yeah, some of them belong in prison - shunned from society, cautionary tales to future scumbags who consider selling out our country for money and power.

The only people who pay a price in this country are the law abiding ciitizens who believe in our Founding values - that has to change or one day we'll wake up and not have a country.

In case you aren't acquainted with the details, Ratcliffe is nailing Rep. Adam Schiff in the above excerpt. He was the "chairman of the intelligence committee" that went on various news programs to lie to the American people and claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian information operation. That ultimately led to Schiff being censured and prevented from rejoining the committee after Republicans won the House of Representatives in 2022.

Ratcliffe, who was DNI during Trump's first term, was the only major intelligence official to come out and tell the truth about the laptop. He did so under a barrage of attacks from the press claiming he was misleading the public to protect the soon-to-be second-term president. In the end, he was vindicated while people like Schiff never apologized for the falsehoods they pushed. That is exactly why Ratcliffe is the right man to lead the CIA. That organization has been politicized and weaponized against Americans for far too long. The time to bring everyone back in line is now, and those who don't want that can "find a new line of work."

American Leftists have lied about President Trump and his supporters for so long that they are utterly bereft. How will they make it through the new year? Will they proceed through the steps of grief and finally accept that they were in error and outside the bounds of rationality or will they get stuck in anger—the second stage of grief?1

For some the stage of bargaining has begun already. They are insisting that we, Trump and the MAGA movement, we who insist on the precepts of the Constitution and rule of law, treat our Leftists better than they ever treated Trump or us.

Remember how they projected their anti-American rage on all conservatives? //

The anti-American Leftists want us to forget about their crimes and misdeeds, such as labeling the events of January 6, 2021, an insurrection, led by President Trump. Odd, isn’t it, that no one has been charged or convicted of insurrection in the Department of Justice’s largest manhunt in history.

Trump, whom the anti-American Left and its media gang continue to label an insurrectionist, was the one who had the National Guard standby to help keep the peace on January 6. But D.C. Mayor Bowser and Capitol Police and then-Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, specifically indicated that they did not want the National Guard at the Capitol or the Mall. Who called for peace? President Trump. Who was more concerned about the optics? The anti-American Leftists, of whom Pelosi is one. //

But for political equilibrium to be restored in America, those who have done wrong, who have violated the law (i.e., the Congressional J6 Committee that suborned perjury, doctored evidence, and suppressed exculpatory evidence), must be held accountable. That is the only way to restore the rule of law.

In order to have freedom, you must have the rule of law. The rule of law prevents bullies from overwhelming the weak. It preserves equal treatment before the law.

And, if the anti-American Left is grieving because of the electoral beating that they took in November, it might be possible that there is some residual desire for justice on the Right.

Accountability might just help the anti-American Left finally come to acceptance, the final stage of grief.

Now that Donald Trump is headed to the White House, he has to make a decision vital to the Republic's health. Over the last eight years, President Trump and his allies have been the subject of a non-stop stream of lawfare attacks designed to cripple him while he was president and later, after he peacefully turned over the reigns of power to the addled Joe Biden, to imprison him for what could have been the rest of his life. The campaign to jail him was clearly a conspiracy involving Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis.

The extent to which the civil cases against him were coordinated with the criminal cases has never, as far as I know, been explored, but it is hard to imagine that it did not exist. This use of the judicial system to attempt to impoverish and imprison political opponents is foreign to the United States and to its founding principles. The decision that Trump has to make is to either ignore the attacks calculated to ruin his life or should he be faithful to the promise he made at CPAC in March 2023, seek retribution.

In 2016, I declared I am your voice. Today I add I am your Warrior, I am your Justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your Retribution. //

Here is where we'd part company. These people tried to imprison Trump for what would have statistically been the rest of his life. They went after the January 6 protesters using a patent over-expansion of the law that the Supreme Court had to smack it down: Supreme Court Hands Down Blockbuster Ruling in Case That Will Impact Multiple J6 Defendants. Even now, Garland's prosecutors are fighting to extend misdemeanor sentences into terms lasting years behind bars because the Supreme Court repudiated them.

As recounted in our posts on Garland's thugs bringing a false and malicious prosecution against a pro-life demonstrator, these people were willing to lie to put their political enemies behind bars and to try and intimidate them. //

Just remember, the convictions are icing on the cake. The process is the punishment. A battalion of bankrupted and unemployable DOJ lawyers and FBI agents living in refrigerator cartons under bridges across the country would provide a daily lesson to what happens when you abuse your power and try to deprive other people of their freedom and livelihoods. //

Only when we've plowed the soil of the Deep State with salt can we talk about a truce. But the personal damage we inflict over the next four years, in terms of jail time, bankruptcies, and legal judgments, must so terrify that second tier of Deep Staters that no matter what another batch of Democrat operatives cook up, they will refuse to get involved. //

eattheelite Mongoose
4 hours ago edited
With humans being human, and all, a caution against abuses from our side is warranted. Trump will not humiliate a fellow president to advance a political ball or satiate his righteously outraged supporters and he's been clear about that much. The best, and, in general, the only, truly sustainable preventive measure is the vigilence of an informed electorate, and it worked precisely as forseen by the Founders even in the face of globalist headwinds. This time. There's a bigger picture here than an eye for an eye. If we get lost in it, which I could so easily find myself doing after eight years of political jujitsu, we'll lose the better of what MAGA can do for Americans and the world. My two cents. Now I'll go back to streaming the View and watching Ellen's English mansion flood because I do get a kick out of witnessing the cosmic justice of their all-consuming and well-earned misery. A guilty pleasure, I know. (I just don't care. Well, I just don't care yet, anyway.) I believe the left calls it self-care! //

anon-o62w
7 hours ago
It's not revenge. It's not payback. It's a crime against the American People. There must be some severe ramifications to deter this tactic by either party in the future. Trumps cases were manufactured. People in power colluded. If proven..jail. Like anyone else. It's not just Trump..it's Jan 6ers, Rudy G....the list is endless. The mistake is Trump is targeted because he's Trump. Believe me, DeSantis, Vance..they will be victims next cycle if the full weight of the law is not brought down on officials who have engaged in this tactic. //

GBenton
6 hours ago
Andy McCarthy is a muppet. He got the Russia Russia thing wrong and a lot more. They all need to pay with reciprocal lawfare for one key reason he failed to address: Trump was innocent but they are actually guilty.

So it's not even lawfare, though I would be fine with reciprocal lawfare either way for reasons this post states already. But the fact is we have to restore the rule of law and prove no one is above it, least of all those who abused power. They must be made to care, as the saying goes, or we will never see the end of this.

On top of everyone mentioned in this post, the folks who engage in voter and election fraud need prison time. If we do not secure our elections we will someday no longer have a country. I do not believe the left can win national elections without illegal aliens and dead people and bogus ballots. We need voter ID, but we also need to absolutely crucify those who stole any elections within the statute of limitations, mostly figuratively speaking but I'm open to literally, too, if they are convicted because stealing elections should be regarded as akin to treason.

Abolute power corrupts absolutely - and the ability to steal elections is simply too dangerous to let be a feature of our process. Paper ballots, voter ID, and life sentences for cheaters and those who organize and fund cheating.

Then we can deal with the media who do nothing but gaslight us with Democrat propaganda. //

Marek76
8 hours ago
Forget the higher ground, justified prosecution for actual crimes is essential if we are to be a nation of laws. The DOJ needs to fear accountability if they abuse their power.

The book, part score-settling memoir and part global threat analysis, at times reads like a Steele Dossier 2.0. He says he uncovered the new tidbits while working for unnamed wealthy individuals in the 2020 campaign cycle and other stuff he dug up while working for corporate clients after Trump was defeated in 2020 by Joe Biden.

Umm, sooo…this supposedly new oppo research is...four years old. And at no time was this searing information ever thought to be so gripping and trenchant that Steele would come forward with the details...until today. This is already shaping up to be about as substantial as his 1.0 beta version of his namesake dossier, and he undersells things even further. //

This is hardly a selling point. In fact, it is the polar opposite. Mueller had established that there was no link between Trump’s campaign and Putin, even as the investigator strained mightily to make any kind of tie possible and tossed out dozens of ineffectual indictments (mostly at Russian figures who would never see the light of a courtroom) ...