Would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016, and would you warn him to never do it again?

All I can do is ask the question.

My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me, and some others they said they think it's Russia.

I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia.

I will say this. I don't see any reason why it would be.

You may have forgotten that before Russia was hacking your grandma's Facebook page, they were doing actual superpower stuff, like invading countries, overthrowing governments.

Why would you allow an attack like this on the United States?

Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?

Hello, and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin.

So my esteemed colleague, Herr Yasha Monk, dislikes Twitter, and rightly points out it gives an alarmingly false view of the United States as a bunch of liberal wanks trying to chip off jokes who do nothing but use the Mueller report as Hustler magazine.

And, you know, I get that.

I'm not leaving Twitter unlike Yasha because I worry about my immune system.

Everyone runs so hot on Twitter, I need it like a fever to burn out my false beliefs.

Like, Mueller found no evidence of obstruction.

I mean, that kind of thing can creep into almost every conversation I have with friends and family and strangers alike.

And I need the hotheads on Twitter constantly reminding me of the atrocities at the border,

of the reality of the Mueller report in order to keep me sane.

Anyway, I don't really like to relax.

So I'll stick with the Howling Madhouse of Echo Chambers that is Twitter.

You all more leisurely sane people can stick with the opiate of the masses in the yummy, sunny filters on Instagram.

One of my favorite finds on Twitter, though, is a man very outside the echo chamber of American Mueller fiends.

He's Alexei Kovalev, and he's my guest today.

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