Making sense of Putin's ‘ghastly trick’

As I read the latest assortment of stories about Donald Trump and the Russians Thursday, a couple of lines from popular culture came to mind. From The Godfather II, Tom Hagen saying to Michael Corleone: "Roth played this one beautifully." Hyman Roth, Corleone's partner in crime but also his worst enemy, had set him up to take the fall. And from John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold: "And suddenly, with the terrible clarity of a man too long deceived, Leamas understoo