Trump Can’t Cross Putin

By Josh Marshall

November 7, 2017 4:04 p.m.

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Put this down as a reporters' hunch, educated speculation. The information we've seen in the last week makes me think that President Trump is still, in effect, being blackmailed by Russia. President Trump may be instinctively sympathetic to Putin because...

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