Column: Why are Julian Assange and Vladimir Putin helping Donald Trump?
What’s Russia doing allegedly meddling in the U.S. election? Masha Gessen, the Russian American author of a critical biography of President Vladimir Putin, assesses why Putin hates Hillary Clinton, how he’d regard a President Trump, and Julian Assange’s alleged role in Russia's email hack of Democrats.
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