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Moscow on the Potomac

It’s about much, much more than Russia.

For a while, it almost seemed as if President Donald Trump’s determined efforts to bury the Russia scandal were working. The punditsphere was itching to move on, Democrats had their hair on fire about health care, and every day brought a new Twitter eruption. And then Trump fired the FBI director—and made it plain for everyone that the Russia story is not merely about how exactly the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 election, or whether Trump or his associates merely winked and nodded or actively colluded.

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