History will get this presidency right. And it will note who the scoundrels were. Not just in government, but among the class of researchers and analysts—on the right *and* the left—which had among its number many people without the courage to stand by the facts when it got hard.

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6/ Note that, even in focusing—rightly—on the national security threat Flynn posed due to his actions, and in calling—rightly—the odds of a Logan Act prosecution "quite low," McCord does not claim (as no one could) that there was not *also* a basis for a criminal *investigation*.

7/ Indictments have been brought under the Logan Act multiple times. The head of the GOP—Trump—supports the Logan Act being used. Congress has declined for 221 years to repeal it. Flynn's case posed the strongest Logan Act case in history. Of course the FBI had to investigate it.

8/ Even the fallacious argument that every DOJ prosecutor conducts a discrete, idiosyncratic inquiry into the constitutionality of every on-the-books law before employing them *underscores* that the *FBI*—whose job is to investigate, not prosecute—had to do *its* job regardless.

9/ I'm thrilled that folks on the right have found a few moral cowards on the left who—fearing that they look bad on Twitter—are pulling back from the accurate, corroborated major-media reports and federal investigations connected to the Trump-Russia case. I am not. I will never.

10/ History *will* get this right. If you follow folks on Twitter who are wavering on *proven facts* because they care more about how they look than *doing the right thing*, keep following them if you like—but consider that cowardice always outs itself in ways shallow *and* deep.

PS/ Like any journalist, if someone offers clear and convincing evidence that one of the 10,000+ facts I curated from major-media investigative reports since 2016 was inaccurate, I'll say so publicly. But bowing to critics who claim to know about things they never researched? No.