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Fri Apr 19, 2019, 05:39 PM Apr 2019

Two Years of Dysfunction Is Big Win for Putin

Two Years of Dysfunction Is Big Win for Putin

April 19, 2019 at 1:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 99 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/04/19/two-years-of-dysfunction-is-big-win-for-putin/

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Washington Post: “The special counsel investigation was often cast as a clash between President Trump and Robert Mueller. But there was always a third player, for whom victory seemed assured no matter the outcome.”

“Russian President Vladi­mir Putin set this sequence of events in motion with a Kremlin campaign to destabilize American democracy. That operation and its aftermath inflamed partisan tensions in the United States, eroded public confidence in core institutions and triggered a two-year investigation that consumed the nation’s attention and much of the Trump presidency.”

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