All of this is just a long introduction to my main point: Former FBI Director Jim Comey deserved to be fired. I know there are many who view his firing as yet another indication Donald Trump is attempting to hide his nefarious Russian ties, business dealings, and sexual misdeeds, but (in my opinion) such assertions are a sign of unhealthy obsession. For about half the country (I bet more, but gotta go with polls, right?) the Russia nonsense, is simply nonsense. It is nothing more than a distraction campaign that has grown out of control in a deliberate attempt to stifle and impede an administration hell-bent on changing the way D.C. operates. I certainly don’t take lightly the implications of the claims, but I do take issue with the veracity (or lack thereof) of the claims themselves.

This post is bound to be long and I have spent plenty of time on my twitter and in other posts explaining why I am skeptical of the charges in the first place, so I will simply say this: There has never been a shred of verifiable evidence that connects Russia to the DNC/Podesta email leaks. There's never been reason to believe the emails leaked were in any way fabricated. Russia is accused of tampering with our election in order to place Trump in power, but no one can make a cogent case as to how they did it at all. The Intel report released spent pages upon pages framing RT anti-fracking articles as anti-Clinton propaganda, but no one is willing to say that a single vote changed as a result.

So, when it comes to whether or not Trump and his team ‘colluded with the Russians’ the obvious question is: ‘What exactly did they collude to do?’ Did they conspire to keep Hillary out of Wisconsin? Did they work together to convince Huma to forward classified emails to Anthony Weiner? It would appear that the answers to these questions are simple and highlight the resounding lunacy of the insistence that Trump is anything other than our legitimate Commander-in-Chief.