From Slate, Franklin Foer on how the real winner of the RNC is Vladimir Putin: The Trump campaign continues its terrifying effort to cozy up to the Kremlin; and on Putin’s puppet: If the Russian president could design a candidate to undermine American interests — and advance his own — he’d look a lot like Donald Trump. Chris Zappone on Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin: Russia’s information war meets the US election. Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook suggests that internal DNC emails leaked this week were an effort from the Russians to help Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Patrick Tucker on how Putin weaponized Wikileaks to influence the election of an American president. Josh Marshall on Trump and Putin — yes, it’s really a thing: “There is something between a non-trivial and a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence for a financial relationship between Trump and Putin or a non-tacit alliance between the two men”.
Garry Kasparov: “Donald Trump reminds me of Vladimir Putin — and that is terrifying”. They hate Putin, they love Trump, and they live in Brooklyn.
