Debunking That Trump-Putin Thing

On the Media | Jul 29, 2016

Political A-listers and celebrities met in Philadelphia this week to rally behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention. But the event was nearly overshadowed by the release of hacked DNC emails and the ensuing claim that the Russians were trying to tilt the election in favor of Donald Trump. It was a story that fit nicely into an ongoing media narrative that Trump is all too cozy with Russian president Vladimir Putin--if not, in fact, working directly for him. It's an exciting story, but, as journalist Masha Gessen wrote in The New York Review of Books this week, one that is almost certainly too good to be true. Speaking with Brooke, Gessen said that the Manchurian candidate narrative is both inaccurate and a distraction from the true threat Trump poses to American democracy.

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