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COUNTERPOINT: Media ‘bias� is a perennial part of elections

Donald Trump’s esteem for Vladimir Putin is well known. For more than a decade, starting before he became president, Trump has expressed admiration for the Russian strongman, from his October 2013 claim that Putin had “done really a great job of outsmarting our country� to his July 2018 assertion at their Helsinki summit that he trusted Putin’s denial of having meddled in the 2016 U.S. election over FBI evidence of Russian interference.

The Trump-Putin bromance was mocked by some of their critics. In Vilnius, Lithuania, the capital of the former Soviet republic, a large mural depicting them embraced in a deep kiss became a tourist attraction.



James Rosen is a former Pentagon reporter who earlier covered the collapse of the Soviet Union as a Moscow correspondent. He wrote this for .

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