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U.S. President Donald Trump faced criticism on Feb. 5 from fellow Republicans as his administration sowed confusion about its approach to Russia, the latest example of the new commander-in-chief creating distractions from the work of unifying his party around plans to cut taxes and rework health-care laws.

In an interview that aired Sunday on Fox, Mr. Trump appeared to draw an equivalence between President Vladimir Putin and the behavior of the U.S. He waved off a description of Mr. Putin as “a killer” by suggesting the United States was similarly immoral.

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