Russian state-supported media loved what Donald Trump had to say at the debate

Monday night's presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York began at 5 a.m. Tuesday in Moscow, but that didn't deter journalists of the country's state-owned media from rising bright and early to cover the event. They didn't exactly take an unbiased stance, either: "At the very least, [the coverage] shows exactly how smoothly Donald Trump's policy positions dovetail with Moscow's," Julia Ioffe wrote at Foreign Policy.

One such example was when Trump claimed the U.S. shouldn't be the "world's policeman," a stance that Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly backed. The quote was promptly shared by Russian newspaper Izvestia:

Ioffe runs through other examples of where Trump sounds eerily similar to the Kremlin's messaging, such as in his assertion that Americans created the conditions for the rise of the Islamic State or his denial that there is any evidence to suggest Russia hacked the DNC. See more examples of the overlap at Foreign Policy, here.

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