In the wake of Attorney General William P. Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report — let’s just shorten that to BSMR, shall we? — President Trump apparently wants to take a victory lap. So does Russia. The Washington Post’s Anton Troianovski reports that Russia is feeling similarly: “The lack of a finding by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia served as an opportunity for Kremlin allies to renew their claim that Moscow didn’t interfere in the 2016 election.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump attend a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018.
