So, let me get this straight, according to Bob Woodward’s new book War, Donald Trump was sitting in Mar-a-Lago on a trove of stolen U.S. national secrets and while there, had Vladimir Putin on speed dial for regular private chats? After he tried to overthrow our government?

And Putin is helping his campaign now by flooding our electorate with toxic disinformation? And there are people who would actually vote for this guy?

What, wait, there’s more?

Also, according to the same book, Trump actually made a special effort to provide Putin with COVID testing kits at a point in the pandemic when many Americans couldn’t get them? Apparently Putin even warned Trump not to tell anyone he had provided the COVID-paranoid Russian dictator war-criminal with the medical care package.

All this after Trump left office? After the Russia scandals that dogged his administration? After kow-towing to Putin and publicly supporting him at the expense of the U.S. intelligence community during a July 2018 meeting in Helsinki? Some of this was after (and possibly before) Putin’s escalation of his invasion of Ukraine?

At any point in our history, such revelations about protracted canoodling with one of our most dangerous enemies would have been the political end for any American politician.

But about half of the American public—the Trumpy half—already........

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