The threat to American democracy comes not from Trump being an explicit Russian asset, but from his functioning as a fellow-traveler or tool of Russian interests while simultaneously pursuing a coherent (if authoritarian) American political project.
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“It's irrelevant whether he is actually a a uh direct um Russian asset or if he's a fellow traveler uh or or simply an individual being manipulated. And certainly the latter is the case. The former two definitions I think have been in various degrees.”
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