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Commentary: What happened in Helsinki again? The watershed that wasn't

Less than two weeks ago, President Donald Trump - standing beside a Russian dictator who had meddled in the 2016 American election, annexed the Crimean peninsula and waged a brutal war in Syria - took the side of said Russian dictator over that of his own intelligence officials.

Trump's deference to President Vladimir Putin on the matter of election interference was, according to Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., the low point of an "incoherent and appallingly self-serving circus." His Republican colleague Bob Corker, R-Tenn., called Trump a "pushover" and the Horror in

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