OPINION:
Now that Donald Trump has been indicted four times, I think back to my first reaction when the story of his “collusion” with the Russian government broke. I assumed it was some kind of stupid joke that would quickly fade away since it failed any sort of historical sanity check.
Russian communism has been at odds with capitalism since the formation of the Soviet Union in 1921. It had to be hard for Vladimir Putin, a KGB agent at the time, to watch the destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
So which is more likely — that Mr. Putin suddenly got over the fact that it was the policies of a Republican president that led to the breakup of the Soviet Union, or that Hillary Clinton made up the Russian collusion story to take the heat off her private email server problems?
The Democratic economic philosophy has always been closer aligned to communism (i.e., “forgiving” college debt). Mrs. Clinton was counting on people having a lousy knowledge of history when she assumed they’d buy into her Trump-Russia-collusion story.
Unfortunately, she was right, and the Mueller probe cost taxpayers $32 million.
BEN FURLEIGH
Port Charlotte, Florida
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