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Okay, so the big news of the day is that the Justice Department is apparently going to open

now a criminal inquiry into the Trump-Russia investigation.

And the media are already playing

defense on this thing. The media are already suggesting that this thing is wildly out of bounds.

Just to get this straight, it was totally inbound when we spent two and a half years spending

millions of dollars investigating the Trump-Russia collusion non-entity. It ended up being a big

nothing burger, at least the collusion part of it, the obstruction part of it, ended up piggybacking off of that and really was only generated by the presence of the

Trump-Russia collusion investigation in the first place. That was totally fine. That was above

board. That was good. It was good to have the DOJ investigating the president of the United

States, which effectively is what the Trump-Russia Mueller investigation

became. That was all good, wonderful, according to the press. But when the Trump administration

looks into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, which may or may not have been

badly founded, well, then it's a terrible thing, a very, very bad thing. It's something that

William Barr clearly should not do. It's just William Barr, the Attorney General, being a political hack. There are no legitimate questions to be asked. So we'll get to what exactly William Barr is investigating here, and whether it is illegitimate. But first, if you're noticing there may be a lot of chaos out there, then you might be thinking to yourself, how can I invest that the chaos doesn't

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