The Daily Blast
Trump’s Ugly Eruption: Putin Will Only Free Jailed Reporter “For Me”
With Donald Trump insisting Vladimir Putin will free reporter Evan Gershkovich only after he wins, an expert in foreign relations explains why this is such a bad omen for a second Trump term.
On Thursday, Donald Trump tweeted that Vladimir Putin will release Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia, after the election—“for me,” meaning for Trump. In other words, elect Trump president, and Putin will release him. We think this saga gets at a larger story about Trump’s approach to politics and foreign policy. So we talked to Nicholas Grossman, a professor of international relations who writes about Trump’s Putinist inclinations. He explains how Trump may be sabotaging U.S foreign policy to help himself politically, while aligning himself with the world’s autocrats and dictators.
