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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

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

Who’s ruling who? … Putin and Trump.
Who’s ruling who? … Putin and Trump. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

It’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.

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