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“One theme that runs through almost all of their accounts is Trump’s unyielding loathing of Ukraine, which dates to his earliest days in the White House.”

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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“We could never quite understand it,” a former White House official said. Well:

- Putin invades Crimea in 2014
- US imposes sanctions
- Putin wants sanctions lifted and annexation recognized
- Trump does nothing about Crimea, loathes Ukraine irrationally, and supports Putin
And:

- While US law enforcement and the intel community have shown Russia was behind the hack of Dem servers in 2016...
- Manafort and Trump spent lots of time asserting Ukraine was the cyber warrior to be feared.
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