Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
The closed-door espionage “trial” for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich got underway in Russia this week, though there’s no great mystery as to the outcome. Jay Conti, executive vice president and general counsel for Dow Jones, publisher of the Journal, told the Associated Press that the proceedings are a sham, and it’s hard to imagine how anyone could disagree.
If this interpretation is correct, Trump doesn’t know that Gershkovich will be released sometime between early November and mid-January, but the former president expects that based on his assumptions about Putin and the Russian leader’s eagerness to make him happy. 2. Trump has secret insights into what Putin is thinking. In both a recent Time magazine interview and online messages, Trump appeared to speak with great confidence about what, exactly, Putin would do in the coming months.
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