Jonathan Cate: “In recent years, relatives between Trump and Putin have been somewhat unfashionable to point out. After Robert Mueller disappointed liberals with failing to prove a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, much of the political spectrum and traditional wisdom on the left have come to treat scandal as an exaggeration.”
“But even the fact that Mueller was able to produce despite the non-cooperation of Trump’s top EU was surprising. Putin hangs a contract for a Moscow building in front of a Trump organization worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and Trump lied about it and utilized him to Putin… The pattern of cooperation between Trump and Putin may not have been evidence-critical, but it was very awful…”
“Zelensky had no good options in the White House. He went into ambush with a president who sympathizes with a dictator who wanted to seize Ukrainian territory. Anyone who has for years warned Trump about Trump’s creepy affinity for President Putin had just this kind of disastrous consequence in mind.”
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