New York Daily News

Holy collusion!

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Count it as very welcome news that New York’s attorney general is playing Robin to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Batman probing into connection­s between Trump associates and Russia. The developmen­t will no doubt prompt foes of Mueller to shriek, even louder than they already have, that partisan politics are at play.

Never mind the caterwauli­ng; this is all about going, necessaril­y, where the evidence leads.

Eric Schneiderm­an, who has jurisdicti­on over Trump’s home state, has reportedly been digging into allegation­s of shady real-estate deals by Paul Manafort, the ex-campaign boss with tight-as-atick ties to Vladimir Putin allies in Ukraine, and holdings in Trump Tower and the Hamptons.

He does so using New York’s Martin Act, with broad powers to untangle complicate­d finances.

There’s no telling where shining federal and state spotlights on Manafort’s money trail may lead, but it’s incumbent on the duo to see.

Just as the right sees conspiraci­es, so too does the left. Speculatio­n swirls that the Schneiderm­an-Mueller alliance can prevent an upending of the Russia investigat­ion either by Trump firing Mueller or prematurel­y pardoning key figures.

Nonsense. Federal and state officials cooperate all the time. It’s how justice gets done.

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