Neutal. Neither help nor hurt. It just reveals positions. I don’t think Putin is a sucker, so he must know he is getting played by the businessman. But when everyone else hates you, that’s what you do.
The Leftist media is now reaping what they sown for decades. After lying so fervently for so long to the US People, no one believes them any more. It doesn’t matter what they say about Trump, no one takes them seriously. Classic case of the “boy who cried wolf†syndrome.