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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

The Wrong-Headed Putin Love-In

By Cathy Young                                                                                     

Even as the media, and all of Washington, buzzed with scandalous uncorroborated claims about President-elect Donald Trump’s ties to the Kremlin, a lesser-noticed moment neatly illustrated another side of Trump's—or Trump-era conservatism's—Russia problem. After Marco Rubio grilled Rex Tillerson at his confirmation hearings about the secretary of state nominee's refusal to call Vladimir Putin a war criminal, Trump's Twitter legion attacked the Republican senator. High -profile Trump supporters mocked Rubio, sometimes crudely, with some followers insisting that if the Russian president is a war criminal, Barack Obama is too. Read more

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