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Russian Speakers Explain What Putin Actually Said About Trump

In Helsinki, the Russian president didn’t confess to meddling. But he left no doubt about who he wanted to win the U.S. election.
Source: Leonhard Foeger / Reuters

On Tuesday, I that one of the key exchanges in the Trump–Putin press conference in Finland doesn’t appear in full in the White House , or at all in the Kremlin’s English-language of the event. The Reuters reporter Jeff Mason asked, “President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct

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