Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[Mav]

I agree - they are unfairly maligned.  Just look at the way they were banned from the Olympics.  Like, as if they'd run a State-sanctioned doping program.  Vlad said they didn't and as a prestigious world statesman that should have been enough.  Just like Essendon FC, they're the victims of a witchhunt unleashed pursuant to a conspiracy.  And then there's the suggestion Vlad had Russian journos and political opponents assassinated.  OMG, that's ripped out of a James Bond novel, isn't it?  That's not the way the head of a large democracy operates.  Because that's what Russia is - a democracy.