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For more than two years, he’s failed to press Russian President Vladimir Putin on the topic, while blaming the interference on everything from “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds” to “a lot of people out there.” That continued in an hour-long phone call on Friday, when Trump didn’t bring up what he called the “Russian hoax.” () Trump can’t own up to Russian hacking, argues David Graham, because he finds it difficult to stomach any suggestion that his victory was

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