Two, I mean FIVE, SIR ironclad proofs there was ZERO Trump-Putin collusion

The first proof is from Trump's Sept. 26 presser which was, even by Trump's low standards, a clear clown car show. For those who didn't get the details, all here on Vox, he called a Kurdish reporter "Mr. Kurd," claimed George Washington had sex scandals and other nuttery. That followed getting laughed at during his speech to the UN General Assembly the day before.

As I said in a series of linked Tweets:

If nothing else, this train wreck of a #TrumpPressConference should be proof positive to every non-#Hillbot, non-#Resistance person from the center, on leftward, that there was ZERO Trump-Putin #Collusion . Vladimir Putin wld NEVER have an incompetent idiot like this elected Prez

— @realDonaldTrump 🌻🚩 (@SocraticGadfly) September 26, 2018

And:

To riff on the original modern fascist, Mussolini, you can't make the trains run on time if you know bupkis about running trains in the first place, and Trump couldn't operate a Lionel set, let alone Union Pacific or the Santa Fe. BUT ... no, no #25thAmendmentNow.

— @realDonaldTrump 🌻🚩 (@SocraticGadfly) September 26, 2018

Seriously, Donald Trump couldn't coordinate his own bowel movement.

Would an ex-KGB colonel pick somebody this incompetent? Someone too egotistical, and too incompetent, to fake incompetence?

Of course not.

Now, the Hillbots will say that's part of the plan, at least the collusion die-harders will. They'll say something like incompetence, more than kowtowing to Moscow, was the plan. However, this ignores Trump selling new arms to Ukraine, Trump twice attacking Russian client state Syria, and at that UNGA speech, Trump accusing Germany of being at risk of falling into endless energy dependence thralldom to Russia.

The incompetence itself? 

Nothing new, as anybody knows.

But, how bad it was two years ago, and just how unprepared Trump was to be president, is detailed by "Moneyball" author Michael Lewis in a new Guardian piece.

And, that's proof No. 2.

Trump simply will not accept "handling." Period. There's no way Vladimir Putin would work with such an off-the-cuff actor. That said, the piece is good. Read it to see just how bad the train wreck was.

Want a third proof? Hillary Clinton's electoral ineptitude highlighted by Democratic senatorial candidates having semi-comfortable leads in those Great Lakes states she lost.

Oh, and sorry folks, but the 25th Amendment was not written for this. I said so in these pages more than a year ago and did so more recently in a newspaper column after the NYT's "Anonymous" column. There, I noted that the way the amendment is written, four days after Pence got the Cabinet to suspend Trump from office, all he has to do is appear before Congress, say "I'm OK," and he's back in.

Oh, here's a fourth: Russia has "given up" on Trump. That includes the state-controlled media that Vlad the Impaler oversees.

A fifth? Trump's abandonment of the INF.