By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • December 19, 2017
In the run-up to Christmas, President Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of some surprising good news and glad tidings.
Sunday, Vladimir Putin called to thank him and the CIA for providing Russia with critical information that helped abort an ISIS plot to massacre visitors at Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Monday found polls showing Trump with his highest approval ratings in months. Stocks soared 200 points at the opening bell in anticipation of the pre-Christmas passage of the Republican tax bill. The Dow has added a record 5,000 points in Trump’s first year.
And the Russiagate investigation may have busted an axle. Though yet unproven, charges are being made that Robert Mueller’s
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