Donald Trump has publicly stated that he talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regularly, with Netanyahu asking Trump for advice, seemingly as part of a shadow foreign policy that also reportedly includes contacts with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. It’s part of a Trump shadow looming large over the election both at home, and abroad. Journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee Terrell Starr has been reporting from one, the country of Georgia.

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