President Trump met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin for two hours in Helsinki in the summer, and we still don’t know what the two men discussed. The White House has also made a habit of not providing details of Trump’s calls with world leaders. When it comes to Trump’s private chats with Putin — an antagonistic foreign leader who our intelligence community says subverted the U.S. electoral system in the hope of electing Trump — we’re dealing with a black box.

We just got a little glimpse inside the box, though, thanks to an excerpt from Washington Post reporter Greg Miller’s book, “The Apprentice.” And it will confirm plenty of people’s fears about the former KGB officer playing Trump.

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