I had thought that the allegation that Russia tried to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump was nonsense, but I now am convinced that the Russians may have done just that.  Hold on.  I haven’t gone over to the loony Left.  Hear me out.  The firestorm over the resignation of General Flynn as National Security Advisor has crystallized this issue.  Let’s take this one step at a time.  We know, because the December FBI/Homeland Security Report told us, that two groups of Russian hackers hacked into the server of the Democratic National Committee in the Fall of 2015 and April of 2016.  These hackers are known to have hacked into the computers of U.S. government agencies, corporations and universities, so this is nothing new.  Foreign governments have been probing for information and advantage for many years.  So supposedly, once into the DNC computers, they gained access to the emails of John Podesta, which then were leaked.  These leaked emails form the basis of the hysterical Democrat charge that “the Russians hacked our election.”  I don’t believe for a minute that these leaks changed the outcome of the election.  When you think about this “election hacking” charge, what the Dems really mean is that the hackers, whoever they were, released truthful information which prevented Hillary Clinton from perpetuating her continual lies on a variety of subjects.  In other words, for once, the voters were presented with the truth, which Democrats consider a threat to our democracy.  They don’t even realize that’s what they are arguing.  But, did the hackers actually gain access to Podesta’s emails by hacking into the DNC computers?  Maybe not, here’s another scenario.  You howling Democrats won’t like this, but you can place the blame right at the feet of one Hillary Clinton.  We know, because the FBI told us on November 3, 2016, that the FBI is 99% sure that Hillary’s unsecured and illegal, private email server was hacked repeatedly from 2009 to 2013 (when she was Secretary of State), by “hostile foreign actors” who gained access to the email accounts of everybody sharing emails with Hillary.  Of course, that would include people in and out of government service, including John Podesta.  According to the FBI’s November 3, 2016 report, Hillary’s illegal unsecured server was penetrated by no less than 5 groups of hackers from foreign countries.  Hillary’s illegal private server was the target of hackers 10 times in November 2010.  The Hillary server had to be shut down in January 2011 due to a hacking attempt.  In August 2011, Hillary’s server was targeted by hackers located in Russia.  In 2013 and 2014, the server was targeted by hackers in China, South Korea and Germany.  Now, Hillary Clinton, the smartest woman in the world, during all this time knew that she was about to run for President.  Despite that fact, the smartest woman in the world made no attempt to secure her illegal private server.  Instead, she continued to use the private server to disseminate highly classified information, knowing that foreign agents had penetrated the system.   Wow!  Now mind you, there are very few people in the government who want Hillary Clinton prosecuted for this activity.  They don’t want her investigated by an independent prosecutor.  Instead, the Democrats, and some Republicans, are intent on having an independent  prosecutor for an investigation (witch hunt) into Trump Administration collusion with Russian agents before and after the election.  The New York Times has reported that people connected to the Trump campaign had contact with Russian agents during the campaign.  President Trump denies this.  Here’s the important part.  What is the source for the Times’ allegation?  A Russian.  Huh?  Now, follow the illogic.  Although the FBI says it’s not sure if the Russian hackers were working for the Russian government, Trump haters swear that nothing happens in Russia unless Vladimir Putin approves it.   Hysterical Democrats, screaming for blood, have concocted an absurd narrative, in which Donald Trump made an unholy alliance with Putin, to have Putin influence the election in Trump’s favor, thus making Trump a puppet of Putin.  Hillary actually called Trump Putin’s puppet during the campaign.  And Putin was successful.  How do we know?  Because the Media assured Democrats that Hillary was going to win, and she lost.  Aha, those dirty Russkies!  But here’s where the ridiculous narrative falls apart.  Donald Trump denies there was any contact with Russia; no surprise there.  However, if Putin and Trump actually had been in cahoots, and if nothing happens in Russia without Putin’s approval, how do you explain the fact that, two days after the election, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister told a Russian News Agency that “there were numerous contacts during the campaign with members of Trump’s team?”  There is one, and only one explanation for this.  Vladimir Putin is a puppeteer, but he’s not pulling Trump’s strings.  It’s much worse.  Putin understood that there was a chance that an outsider could be elected President.  Putin knew that this was an opportunity to undermine and destabilize the U.S. government.  Had an Establishment candidate been elected, our government would still be polarized, beset by deep partisan divisions.  Install outsider Donald Trump as President and those divisions are magnified.  Democrats hate and despise Trump.  They thought he was illegitimate before this latest flap.  On the other side, Trump is not “of” the Republican Party.  That swamp he wants to drain contains as many Republicans as Democrats, perhaps more.  Trump wants to cut the federal workforce by 20%.  That cuts off patronage, the lifeblood of politics.  In short, Trump is a threat to both sides, and both sides want to do him in.  Hence, the latest “scandal,” which idiot N.Y. Times reporter Thomas Friedman says is on par with 911 and Pearl Harbor.  There must be an investigation!  He’s right about that.  There must be an investigation of who is illegally leaking wiretap conversations between General Flynn and the Russian Ambassador.  That is a violation of the Espionage Act, and other laws.  It is believed that the wiretaps were initiated by Il Duce Obama during the election campaign to help Hillary.  Only a very few suspects could have leaked this classified wiretap information to the newspapers.  A Grand Jury must be empaneled to get to the bottom of this.  Meanwhile, Putin the puppeteer is laughing up his sleeve.  All he had to do was have the Deputy Foreign Minister allege that there were contacts with Trump.  Now he can sit back and watch while our government tears itself apart.  Putin might have done it, but he didn’t do it to help Trump.  If we let him get away with it, shame on us.