Did Trump's Russian SVR Pals Give Hillary Pneumonia?

I'm just asking.

Because Trump is constantly spewing ridiculous conspiracy theories about what Hillary might do when she's elected, it's only fair to ask questions about what Trump would do to get elected.

And dirty tricks are exactly the sort of thing that Trump (and Republicans in general) love to engage in.

Think about it. Trump and his surrogates have been yammering nonsense about Hillary's health for a couple of months now, setting the hook. Then, magically, after they've been talking trash about her, Hillary suddenly comes down with pneumonia.

Coincidence?

The Russians have a long history of assassinating people in other countries with various types of poisons: in England they poisoned Alexander Litvinenkio with polonium 210, and Georgi Markov with a ricin-tipped umbrella. They poisoned Czech reformer Alexander Dubcek with radioactive isotopes in his soup (he recovered). Also in London they poisoned whistleblower Alexander Perepilichny with a flower found in Asia. They poisoned Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko with dioxin, leaving him horribly disfigured (he has mostly recovered).

Now, the Russians couldn't get away with poisoning Hillary Clinton. Suspicion would fall upon them immediately. Trump would be branded a traitor, by all except those morons who are begging him to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue.

But giving Clinton pneumonia, that's the perfect crime: it's a common disease that you can pick up anywhere. I had it once myself, completely out of the blue, and had no symptoms except a terrible headache and exhaustion.

Is there any evidence of this? No.

But that wouldn't stop Donald Trump from putting a theory like this out there. Spewing these sorts of lies and conspiracies is what Trump and his followers do every day. They fabricate lie after lie after lie, and make up grand conspiracies -- like a 50-year plan to place an anti-British Muslim Kenyan dictator in the White House.

So I'm not saying that Trump had his Russian pals in the SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, or External Intelligence Service, the successor to the KGB) gave Hillary pneumonia. I'm just asking the question, like the misogynists at Fox News or Donald Trump's misogynistic alt-right white supremacist buddies at Breitbart do.

But when Donald Trump constantly extols the virtues of Vladimir Putin, saying what a great and strong leader Putin is for seizing parts of Georgia and Ukraine, and assassinating political opponents like Boris Nemtsov and journalists like Anna Politkovskaya, you gotta wonder if Trump is taking plays out of Putin's play book.