Donald Trump goes to West Virginia to mock Russia investigation on the same day we learn that Robert Mueller impaneled a Grand Jury.

Courtesy of NBC News:  

More than eight months after winning the election, President Donald Trump on Thursday declared Hillary Clinton's defeat "the greatest loss in the history of American politics," while painting the Russia investigation as a "total fabrication" by Democrats to distract from their failure to win the White House and lack of message.

 "The reason why Democrats only talk about the totally made-up Russia story is because they have no message, no agenda and no vision," Trump told a raucous crowd of supporters gathered for a campaign rally-style event in Huntington, West Virginia. 

The president called probes into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia during the 2016 election "demeaning" and "fake." 

"Most people know there were no Russians in our campaign — there never were," Trump said. "We didn't win because of Russia. We won because of you, that I can tell you." 

"Have you seen any Russians in West Virginia or Ohio or Pennsylvania?" Trump continued, listing states he won last year before quizzing the crowd: "Are there any Russians here tonight? Any Russians?"

Trump then fired up the crowd by throwing them some Hillary Clinton flavored red meat:

"What the prosecutors should be looking at are Hillary Clinton's 33,000 deleted emails," Trump said, prompting chants of "Lock her up! Lock her up!" from the crowd, a common occurrence during the 2016 campaign. 

Democrats, he said, "can't beat us at the voting booths so they're trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you want."

Apparently Trump went to West Virginia because these the most simple minded simpletons on the planet and he still has tons of support there.

In front of that sympathetic crowd Trump frames this as an "us against them" situation where his own Justice Department is going after him on behalf of the Democrats and everything being revealed in the press is manufactured to make him look bad.

It is essentially the rantings of a crazy person. But it is given power due to the fact that it is said in front of a crowd of stupid people.  And then broadcast into the homes of even more slack jawed morons.

However as I pointed out in the headline while Trump is inciting the short bus crowd, Robert Mueller is moving forward with an investigation that seems to be picking up speed everyday.

And now it appears that things are starting to come into focus:  

Federal investigators exploring whether Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian spies have seized on Trump and his associates' financial ties to Russia as one of the most fertile avenues for moving their probe forward, according to people familiar with the investigation. 

The web of financial ties could offer a more concrete path toward potential prosecution than the broader and murkier questions of collusion in the 2016 campaign, these sources said.

Rabid crowds of supporters don't mean squat when up against growing piles of evidence.