In the last few days, Donald Trump has been bitterly criticized for his bizarre defense of Russia President Vladimir Putin. We may have thought we’d heard everything in a crazy political year, but having a Republican presidential candidate speak of that authoritarian thug as being morally equivalent to the United States was something so outrageous that it should have been unthinkable for even a Trump. That Trump would claim in television interviews that America also kills journalists or that nobody has proved that Putin kills people (surely a surprising notion to the people of Chechnya or Ukraine) was disgraceful, but it is actually consistent with the things he has been saying about Russia throughout the campaign.
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