Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House? review – a lazy, galling failure of a documentary

This Dispatches episode about Putin and Trump is a weird rundown of everything we’ve known for a decade – like reading a Twitter thread in 2018. What’s so frustrating is that this really matters right nowIt’s never a particularly encouraging sign when the title of a documentary ends with a question mark. It might just be a tiny scrap of punctuation, and yet it can single-handedly undermine an entire thesis.Take the latest episode of Dispatches. A film called Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House would hit like a juggernaut. That film would be an authoritative, definitive hammer blow, confirming beyond doubt what many have suspected for years: that Donald Trump is either working with or an unwitting puppet of Putin’s Russia. This film would represent a clean punch landed. It would reverberate around the world.Dispatches: Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House? is on Channel 4 Continue reading...

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