What a Trump Presidency Means for Putin’s Russia

Trump won and Putin popped the cork on his finest bottle of champagne.

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In the most pivotal moment of the most pivotal battle of the US Civil War, dozens of Union soldiers from the 20th Maine Division claimed, under penalty of perjury, that they saw the ghostly apparition of General George Washington on horseback silently wave them in the right direction and encourage them to follow him.

At first, they thought he was a Union general, but they began to scratch their heads as he looked remarkably like George Washington and dressed in an 18th-century American uniform complete with a tri-corner hat.

At the sight of the nation’s first President, the 20th Maine Division rallied and charged forcing the Confederates to retreat from their position near Little Round Top, a turning point in the battle that itself was a turning point in the war — arguably saving the United States of America.

As rumors of a ghostly presence spread, Lincoln’s Secretary of War Edwin Stanton investigated.

Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, the division commander, testified, “We know not what mystic power may be possessed by those who are now bivouacking with the dead. I only know the effect, but I dare not explain or deny the cause. Who shall say that Washington was not among the number of those who…