Two political events from last week stand out: One is FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok’s testimony in front of two U.S. House oversight committees and the indictments announced by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein against 12 Russian intelligence officers investigated by FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Also, behind the scenes of the current leadership of the Democratic National Committee surely they must be scrambling to come up with a viable presidential candidate to take on President Donald Trump in 2020. On the horizon is only one candidate that fills the bill, but we will get into that in a moment.

Meanwhile, Strzok’s testimony before Congress was shameless arrogance and it got worse as the questions heated up one after another. He was smug in his denials that his hundreds of now public anti-Trump ‘private texts’ between him and his mistress, an FBI lawyer named Lisa Page, who also testified to Congress last week behind closed doors.

Strzok’s complacency was appalling. What’s even more disturbing is this guy is still employed by the FBI in the Human Resources division after being pulled off from Mueller’s Russia/Trump campaign collusion probe. Page resigned in disgrace from the FBI months ago and Strzok should do the same or FBI Director Christopher Wray should fire him. The long-term public relations damage done to the FBI by these higher ups – not just Strzok – but also former FBI Director James Comey, who President Trump fired last year and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe who Wray fired in January for lying to Congress.

Mainstream media and the Democrats are sticking up for Strzok. The House Democrats questioning Strzok used the occasion for grandstanding by reading pre-prepared mini speeches trashing President Trump. This man’s testimony was useless. Nothing new was learned.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) blasted Strzok’s obvious hatred toward President Trump, while Strzok defiantly said repeatedly that his anti-Trump texts played no part in any of his decisions while starting the Russia/Trump campaign collusion investigation under Comey and his handling of Hillary Clinton’s email investigation.

The more Strzok talked the more he looked like Hollywood actor Jack Nickolson in “The Shinning.”

On the Russia indictments, meanwhile, many political commentators are questioning the U.S. Department of Justice’s timing of announcing the charges against ghost defendants living in Russia just before President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in Helsinki, Finland. None of these defendants will be deported to the USA, arrested, charged and put on trial. There is no justice here.

In his announcement Rosenstein said they found no involvement by any Americans in the Russia intelligence hacking of Democratic National Committee’s emails that were released by Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. So if no Americans were involved that clears Team Trump of having anything to do with these new indictments from Mueller’s investigation.

Rosenstein also said there was no evidence that any votes were altered due to any Russian meddling during campaign 2016 in which Hillary Clinton lost.

The best thing to come out of these Russian agent indictments is the next presidential election cycle will be freer of election meddling from outside the USA. Apparently, Mueller’s team learned how these Russian intelligence agents did if fact hack DNC computers gaining access to embarrassing emails that led to the resignations of high-level DNC officials.

Now who will the Democrats nominate in 2020 to run against President Trump? Oprah Winfrey? Nope. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III? No. Rep. Cory Booker? Nope. Sen. Elizabeth Warren? No way. Sen. Kirston Gillibrand? Nope. Sen. Bernie Sanders? Nope. Joe Biden? Nope. Hillary Clinton? Hell no.

There is only one choice for the Democrats to have any chance to unseat President Trump and that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He has political history 10-miles long even though he is mostly known for his environmental activism for the past few decades. He has the history, the stature and respect of every Democrat. At 64-years-old Kennedy could assemble that old Democratic Party machine and rise again from the ashes.

Kennedy has never held an elected office, but according to his biography he considered running for the U.S. Senate in 2000 from New York, then in 2005 as New York Attorney General and in 2008 he turned down an appointment to the U.S. Senate saying that would take too much time away from his family.

It’s understandable that Kennedy may be a bit ‘gun shy’ about running for president seeing that his uncle President John F. Kennedy and his father Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) were both assassinated by gunfire. But he’s the only one.

About the Author Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.