It has been ten years, and Donald Trump still can’t outrun the Russia scandal. The second Trump administration has been about the president trying to rewrite history and erase the stains that will never vanish.
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Trump has tried to rewrite the history of the 1/6 attack. He is trying to find evidence that he did not lose the 2020 election that he lost, but the stain that has followed him around the longest is the Russia scandal.
Even in 2026, Trump reflexively responds hoax when the Russia scandal is brought. It doesn’t matter to Trump that there is evidence of connections between his first campaign and Russia. Trump seems to have forgotten that he stood before the television cameras and asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Trump’s odd behavior with Putin has lasted for a decade, but this president wants America to believe that the intelligence community conspired against him, and that Barack Obama had him investigated.
Donald Trump has never been able to shake the Russia scandal. It is always there every single day, hanging over his head. The unanswered questions. The idea that Donald Trump is a compromised president, or that his loyalty is not to the United States, always seems to be operating in the background of his political career.
Now Donald Trump is trying to use the people’s government to prove a conspiracy theory.
