Master remedial reading and you will learn so much (e.g. you'll learn Saunders wrote not that Putin may have tried to help Trump win or that he may have wanted him to win but that "he may have engineered Trump's victory").   

This irresponsible rant is in no way shining the light of reality on anything and is a black mark on journalism in the Globe.

Trump and Clinton engineered The Donald's victory, Trump with a smart, energetic, charismatic, targeted campaign with a clear message and policies and Clinton with a lackadaisical, lethargic, confusing, incompetent and weak  campaign that had only one message "it's my turn and if you don't support me you are deplorable".

Putin obviously has a personality clash with Clinton.  So have many others including Zipper Billy himself.

But to suggest that Putin significantly influenced the campaign or that he with an economy 1/10th the US's and with much less firepower is now ordering around the Alpha Dog billionaire Trump is simply insane.