vindicated the russian view that they were right to think that trump would be a better president from russia's point of view than the alternative? >> i don't think that there was real support for mr. trump, and i don't think this is a deep support for mr. trump even now because we all know he is handicapped by this kinky inside struggle that you have with your country, which undermines your position in the world and your prestige. so what we were assured of is the accommodation of neocons and liberal internationalists who would have come with mrs. clinton, would have been the worst possible scenario. they would have had to vindicate their defeats they have incurred on their country and the destabilization that has occurred around the world. so mrs. clinton was the worst