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For years, Democrats and their media allies swore up and down that the FBI's investigation of Donald Trump was a serious national security investigation, launched only because of grave concerns about Russian collusion. Newly declassified FBI records tell a different story. It turns out that the bureau formally opened its full counterintelligence investigation into Trump back in 2017, and used his firing of FBI Director James Comey as the justification.

The president exercised his constitutional authority to fire an FBI director, and the FBI responded by opening a counterintelligence investigation into him.

The key document is a declassified FBI "Opening Electronic Communication," dated May 16, 2017, exactly one week after Trump fired Comey on May 9. It authorized a full investigation into the sitting president of the United States under the codename "Oxferd Comma." No, that's not a typo. Don’t ask me why it’s spelled that way.

"The FBI is opening a full investigation based on an articulable factual basis that reasonably indicates that President Donald J. Trump may be or has been, wittingly or unwittingly, involved in activities for or on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation which may constitute violations of federal criminal law or threats to the national security of the United States," the document reads.

The stated goal was to determine "if President Trump is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation in a manner constituting a threat to the national security of the United States and/or a violation of federal criminal statutes." The same document reveals that investigators were also examining Trump for possible obstruction of justice.

So what was the "articulable factual basis" for treating a duly elected president as a suspected Russian asset? Trump's conversations with Comey. The document claims Trump "sought Comey's personal loyalty" and "asked Comey to publicize the fact that the President was not the subject of an FBI investigation." It also states that Trump "asked Comey to do what he could to resolve the investigations."

That's it. That's the smoking gun. A president asked why the FBI wouldn't publicly admit what it privately told him, that he wasn't under investigation, and the bureau treated the question as evidence of a Kremlin conspiracy.

WTA World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka on Monday offered her full support for new mandatory sex testing designed to keep men out of women’s sports.

The WTA confirmed last month players will be asked to provide a one-time cheek swab, blood or saliva sample to check for the presence of the SRY gene, which is part of the Y chromosome and causes male characteristics to develop.

The testing has the simple aim of keeping male imposters off the women’s courts.

Asked to address the topic in Montreal, Canada, the Belarusian four-time Grand Slam champion said, “I think it’s really important to keep the fairness in our tour. It’s obviously, biologically, the men are way stronger than women, so I feel like it would be not really fair for the woman to compete against biological men.

“I think it took them a while to make this decision and, yes, I support it…. If you want to test us all, I will gladly do so, it’s pretty fair, and let’s keep it that way.”