The reason Putin and Russia worked to boost Trump in 2016, of course, was that they — presciently — saw him as a useful idiot for the effort to undermine American political unity. They probably still do. On Tuesday, the host of a show that airs on Russian state television responded to Biden’s suggestion that Putin be ousted by calling for “regime change” in the United States and, according to a translation from the Daily Beast’s Julia Davis, to “again help our partner Trump to become President.”