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Look. Countries try to disrupt elections. We do it. They do it. We were especially effective at meddling in Russia’s 1995 election that led to the second term of Boris Yeltsin. Political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University estimates that the United States interfered with 81 elections between 1946 and 2000. Every time we flew over Iraq or Afghanistan and dumped pamphlets out of a plane, we were meddling with their elections. I have no doubt that Russia interferes more often than we do, simply because they’re more paranoid about more things than we are, but this indictment is the equivalent of Claude Rains telling Humphrey Bogart, “I’m shocked—shocked!—to find that gambling is going on in here!”—after which the croupier hands him a pile of money and says, “Your winnings, sir.”

This indictment makes me think Robert Mueller has nothing. This is the best he can do? He’s so far from making a case against Trump that he’s running behind Stormy Daniels.

So grow up, people. Russia’s goals didn’t seem to be the election of any particular candidate so much as just to mess with us. These were professional trolls or, more appropriately, hired leprechauns. They did the same things that any bored 13-year-old hacker would do.

And there’s a silver lining. They also created jobs in the United States, like hiring an actress in West Palm Beach to portray Hillary in a prison uniform at a Trump rally, and then sending more money to a carpenter who could build Hillary’s prison cage. Those are two jobs that would never have existed without the diligence of people like Gleb, Irina, Vladimir, Aleksandra, and Anna. Something tells me all five of them would be fun at a party, which is more than I can say for the staff of Robert Mueller.

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