A record number of Americans tuned to watch the debate on Monday night, but someone else was watching, too: the Kremlin media machine. It was the middle of the night in Russia, but the tweets kept coming, making it clear, as always, whose side the Kremlin is on in this election. At the very least, it shows exactly how smoothly Donald Trump’s policy positions dovetail with Moscow’s. Read between the lines, and it also shows what the Kremlin thinks about Hillary Clinton.
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US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a town hall meeting at the Miami Dade college in Miami, Florida, on September 27, 2016.
