Russia Returns to the Middle of the U.S. Presidential Campaign

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Donald Trump recently compared his criminal indictments to the plight of Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison. Nikki Haley and Joe Biden both criticized the remark, as the candidates spar over U.S. policy toward the Kremlin and Ukraine. Plus, the Hunter Biden special counsel indicts FBI informant Alexander Smirnov for lying about information he provided about Hunter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:38.0	Russia, Russia, Russia, yes, Russia once again becomes a major issue in American presidential politics.
0:44.5	Donald Trump compares his criminal trials to the fate of the Russian dissidents
0:49.7	elects state Navalny who died in a Russian prison last week.
0:53.3	Nicky Haley criticizes Donald Trump for the comparison
0:56.3	and for being weak on Russia.
0:58.2	And Joe Biden calls Vladimir Putin a crazy S.O.B.
1:01.9	And also attacks Trump for being soft on the Kremlin. How will all of this affect
1:06.2	the campaign for president? Not to mention American foreign policy. Welcome, I'm Paul
1:11.6	as you go with the Wall Street Journal opinion
1:13.3	page here with Kim Strassal and Kate Batchelder O'Dell. Well here we go again.
1:18.4	2016. Russia played an outsized role in the presidential campaign as the Hillary Clinton campaign
1:23.7	sought to tar Trump as a tool of Vladimir Putin and later turned this into a two-year
1:28.8	Russia collusion probe that turned out to have been largely concocted by Clinton Associates.
1:34.0	Well, now the issues are more concrete given the stakes on aid to Ukraine and Trump's opposition to it,
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