Seem a little smokey?

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Just a few things, as we go into next year's Presidential election, and the second year of the war in Ukraine.

1.  Maria Butina. (Мари́я Вале́рьевна Бу́тина), member of the Duma, and successful infiltrator into the GOP and the NRA.

2. Trump removing protection of Ukraine from the GOP ticket when he was nominated in 2016.

3.  Trump inviting, openly, Putin to look into Clinton's emails.

4.  Paul Manafort:

Manafort's presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for the Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign. The Committee assesses that Kilimnik likely served as a channel to Manafort for Russian intelligence services, and that those services likely sought to exploit Manafort's access to gain insight [into] the Campaign...On numerous occasions over the course of his time of the Trump Campaign, Manafort sought to secretly share internal campaign information with Kilimnik...Manafort briefed Kilimnik on sensitive campaign polling data and the campaign's strategy for beating Hillary Clinton.

5.  Kevin McCarthy telling Paul Ryan that Trump and Rohrabacher were on the Russian payroll, which he later passed off as a joke, after first saying that the conversation never happened.

6.  Trump suggesting he'd hold up arms to Ukraine in exchange for Zelenskyy providing damaging information on Biden.

I'm not saying Donald Trump is a Russian agent.

I'm saying there's a lot of smoke, and somebody ought to go look for a fire.