Two Years of Dysfunction Is Big Win for Putin

Washington Post: “The special counsel investigation was often cast as a clash between President Trump and Robert Mueller. But there was always a third player, for whom victory seemed assured no matter the outcome.”

“Russian President Vladi­mir Putin set this sequence of events in motion with a Kremlin campaign to destabilize American democracy. That operation and its aftermath inflamed partisan tensions in the United States, eroded public confidence in core institutions and triggered a two-year investigation that consumed the nation’s attention and much of the Trump presidency.”