Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Trump Wanted to Collude, But Did Putin?

The most interesting part of this story is about how the Kremlin responded to Trump's open invitation.

July 12, 2017 at 2:27 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

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Political memories are short, but they shouldn't be this short. Amid all the outrage about Donald Trump Jr.'s willingness a year ago to find out what dirt the Russian government may have had on Hillary Clinton, it's worth remembering his father's press conference on July 27, 2016.

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