By what standard does the geriatric anti-Trump boys' club of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et al. have standing to say President Putin is favoring and aiding President Trump in the 2020 election?  Sadly, perhaps too much geritol and vodka are being consumed in their clubhouse.  What is equally tragic is that the New Your Times, aided and encouraged by its Democrat enablers, continues to peddle the BS twaddle "Russia Russia Russia" without a hint of intellectual rigor or shame.

As usual, in just another day's work, President Trump nails them in a way all Americans can understand and accept:

Another misinformation campaign is being launched by Democrats in Congress saying that Russia prefers me to any of the Do Nothing Democrat candidates who still have been unable to, after two weeks, count their votes in Iowa. Hoax number 7!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2020

Rather than continue to shadowbox against just another BS intel leak to the MSM's never-ending  fake news creating "Hoax Number 7," simply look at the national security strategic actions of President Obama and President Trump to determine which commander-in-chief empowered the United States Navy to  win a naval campaign against Putin's Russia.

The proof of who was helping Russia's strategic goals (Obama) and who sent a Navy force "down to the sea in ships" to take on Russia (Trump) is all that is needed to kill "Hoax Number 7."

When faced with a growing Russian threat, President Obama threw down his rifle and ran from the field (or ocean) of battle.  President Obama's actions in taking office were dangerous and shortsighted.  In 2011, then-commander-in-chief President Obama deactivated the United States Navy 2nd Fleet.

The 2nd Fleet was an illustrious Navy fighting force that had a lot to do with putting the brakes on a potential WWIII Nuclear Armageddon between Russia (the Soviet Union) and the United States, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  President Obama simply told the 2nd Fleet to just go away, and poof!  A great fighting fleet was no more:

Specific fleet operations included establishing a quarantine in the Caribbean as ordered by then-President John F. Kennedy during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, rescuing Americans in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury in October 1983, and training and certifying half the U.S. Fleet for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990–1991. 

Now with elections having significant strategic consequences, thankfully, in May of 2018 commander-in-chief President Trump stood the 2nd Fleet back up.

"With an eye on Russia, U.S. Navy re-establishing its Second Fleet"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -— The United States Navy is re-establishing its Second Fleet, responsible for the northern Atlantic Ocean, nearly seven years after it was disbanded as the Pentagon puts countering Russia at the heart of its military strategy.

The danger of the Russian Navy did not materialize overnight.  Writing in the American Thinker in early 2019, I asked a simple question addressing a Russian Navy nightmare weapon coming at the United States from a Russian  sub in  the Atlantic:

Is President Putin diabolically smart or simply a psychopath?  Perhaps he is both, because by his direct action, the world is now a much more dangerous place as the former KGB officer creates a nuclear doomsday scenario backed by real Russian naval capabilities:

• Russia is said to have built a new 100-megaton underwater nuclear doomsday device, and it has threatened the US with it.

• The device goes beyond traditional ideas of nuclear war fighting and poses a direct threat to the future of humanity or life on Earth.

• Nobody has ever built a weapon like this before, because there's almost no military utility in so badly destroying the world.

Today, right now, President Putin is not keeping the possible end-of-life nuclear-armed sub force secret.  In fact, just the opposite: He is bragging about that capability and stating his intention to use it as needed.

The good news for all is that President Trump empowered the U.S. fighting Navy to stand up a fleet to take Putin and his Russian sub threat head on.  So much for the stupid, stupid blather that he is favoring Putin and Russia.

Simply stated, Putin would be nuts with his current military doctrine and threats to consider favoring President Trump's re-election.  Unlike today's Democrats and media reporters and editors, Vladimir Putin is not a stupid man.