Masha Gessen: Russiagate Has Become a Conspiracy Trap Obscuring How Trump Is Damaging Nation
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#3GKGS)
Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen talks about how President Trump has benefited from what she calls the "conspiracy trap" around Russia's role in the 2016 election. She wrote last year, "Russiagate is helping him-both by distracting from real, documentable, and documented issues, and by promoting a xenophobic conspiracy theory in the cause of removing a xenophobic conspiracy theorist from office."