New York Times Trump-phobic columnist Nicholas Kristof gave us a novel way of analyzing Trump developments in his March 9 column: the "Best Guess" Test – and its "I Wouldn't Be Surprised" Corollary. Kristof's "Best Guess" Test led him to conclude that Trump-Putin ties are "more ambiguous and less transactional – partly because Putin intended to wound Clinton and didn't imagine that Trump could actually win."  (Let's hold that "Best Guess" a second.  Mr. Kristof is here putting the lie to claims, made without evidence from leftists, that Putin sought the election of Donald Trump.) Kristof then asserted the corollary: "Yet I wouldn't be surprised if the Trump team engaged in secret contacts and surreptitious messages, and had advance knowledge of Russia's efforts to attack the American political process."   With the "Best Guess" Test and...(Read Full Post)