Meanwhile back at the Kremlin, Putin was delighted that Judge Cannon saved #45 with her incredible interpretation of the US Constitution, but was then horrified to see his protege almost get killed, Putin's best chance to divide NATO and isolate Ukraine. Too bad Putin can't send a FSB detail to the US to augment the USSS in order to protect his investment.

And, ladies and gentlemen, if the young assassin was successful, Putin too would have been "hoisted on his own petard," to wit: Putin's potential savior in the Ukraine War would have been murdered with the assault weapon of choice for the NRA, an organization the Kremlin secretly funded through the likes of Maria Butina (and others).

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Amazing the crossroads that 21st-century America is approaching (again), strangely predicted by fiction writers over 60 years ago.

Joseph Condon's 1959 novel "The Manchurian Candidate" predicted a foreign power planting a nefarious agent at the apex of the US political system. I recommend reading the book; however, the film adaptation by John Frankenheimer is excellent and will save you time. The music and cinematography are splendid. This Frank Sinatra movie was also the first to demonstrate karate in a Hollywood movie (as opposed to judo or ju-jitsu; James Cagney had that honor two decades earlier in 1945 with "Blood on the Sun").

Moreover, exactly two months before JFK was assassinated, a TV show called the "Outer Limits" aired an episode where a foreign power switches in a perfect doppleganger to replace the VPOTUS.

So, here we are in the 21st century and the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation, Robert Mueller, and Jack Smith (so far) were unsuccessful in neutralizing the foreign threat to America's democracy. The net results of Congress's two impeachments of "45" seem to be pyrrhic victories for the historical record.

America, quo vadis?

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