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Document Declassified by Trump Reveals Russia Tried To Help Him Win the 2020 Election

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Many enemies of the United States seek to undermine faith in American elections"but "no regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America's own president did tonight," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/2TpBeFGB[image or embed]

" The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) 12:55 AM Jul 17, 2026

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The president has long denied that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sought to assist him in elections. But according to an intelligence assessment released on Thursday, the Russian government did try to help Trump.

Posted by reinheitsgebot

What Trump is doing here does not have to make sense. He's already decided what he is going to do. There will be a second coup. The only questions are how successful and how violent?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-17 09:54 AM | Reply

Turns out Russia was listening. This is what happens when we elect a spray-tanned glorified interior decorator with a vengeance kink.

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-07-17 10:06 AM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1

The call is coming from inside the house!

#3 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-07-17 10:15 AM | Reply

If you include Israel in on all this, you'll have many more listeners and believers. No foreign country influences American elections more than Israel.

Israel, Russia and China should be America's top adversaries, in that order.

#4 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-07-17 10:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

No one, anywhere, has ever managed to inflict anything even close to the kind of profound damage Trump and his Republican enablers have wrought upon this nation and its institutions.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-17 10:35 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

No one, anywhere, has ever managed to inflict anything even close to the kind of profound damage Trump and his Republican enablers have wrought upon this nation and its institutions.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis a

To include Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-17 10:43 AM | Reply

"No one, anywhere, has ever managed to inflict anything even close to the kind of profound damage Trump and his Republican enablers have wrought upon this nation and its institutions

And the sooner Americans realize that Israel was the model the better position they'll be to deal with it.

The MAGA ideology is nothing more than chauvinist Zionism for white Christian Americans.

#7 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-07-17 10:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

- Israel, Russia and China should be America's top adversaries, in that order.

Good point. They would be replacing this Gov's current top adversaries, Greenland, Cuba, and the American People.

As DJT obviously knew and encouraged Vlad to interfere for him, it was par for his course to then accuse Dems and China of what he himself was doing.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 11:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Trump's Election Speech Ignites Wave of Furious Democratic Backlash " and Calls for Impeachment"

www.mediaite.com

This is why Republicans on the Hill spent all day yesterday trying to talk him out of this Kamikaze Suicide Speech.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 11:42 AM | Reply

Fox & Friends Completely Ignores Pedo 47's Election Speech

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#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-17 11:44 AM | Reply

Proof that 2020 election was stolen and the Deep State worked hand in hand with China. The likely-hood that COVID was an intentional biological weapon attack and not an accidental lab leak needs to be investigated. We are now at war with China and the Deep State. All three letter agencies need house cleaning. The Democrat party (the party of the permanent government bureaucracy) has to answer for crimes against the American people.

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-17 11:44 AM | Reply | Funny: 4

Get the Butterfly Net, He's Nuts.

#12 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-17 11:47 AM | Reply

#11

The Comedy is deep with this one.

Not to mention the psychological problems, so I won't mention them.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 11:47 AM | Reply

Get the Butterfly Net, He's Nuts.

#12 | Posted by Effeteposer

It's an attempt at satire.

But, yes. He's nuts.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-17 11:49 AM | Reply

All three letter agencies need house cleaning.

#11 | Posted by visitor_

Especially ICE and CBP... right?

#15 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2026-07-17 12:57 PM | Reply

Glad that these dumb voters have forgotten all about those Epstein files...
--MAGA functionaries, echoing their spray-tanned idol's musings

#16 | Posted by catdog at 2026-07-17 01:01 PM | Reply

Key Takeaways From Donald Trump's Speech Debunked
www.newsweek.com

... In 2022, a group of prominent conservative legal experts"including former federal judges, Republican election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, former Solicitor General Ted Olson and ex-U.S. Senators John Danforth and Gordon Smith -- released a report titled Lost, Not Stolen, concluding that "Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors" and that there was "absolutely no evidence of fraud" sufficient to alter the results.

Independent reviews, recounts and audits in key battleground states likewise reaffirmed the certified election results. Investigations by state election officials from both political parties, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), did not uncover evidence of widespread voter fraud capable of affecting the outcome. ...


#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-17 01:05 PM | Reply

Proof that 2020 election was stolen and the Deep State worked hand in hand with China.

#11 | Posted by visitor_

Cite the proof.

Then explain why the 2016 and 2024 election WERENT stolen.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-07-17 01:08 PM | Reply

#11

So, In your mind, when Obama was president, Donald Trump won the election in 2016. So the system wasn't rigged. But then when Donald Trump was president, somehow China rigged the election in favor of Joe Biden, under Trump's watch. And then Joe Biden became president and unphqued the election system so Trump could win again? So the elections are only rigged under Trump? You gotta be a special type of stoopid.

#19 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-07-17 01:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The Mad King goes on a hysterical rant and cries about an election he lost.

Again.

It's an emergency! Because Trumpy is making it an emergency.

Because Trumpy is about to be held accountable

And that scares hell out of him.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-17 01:17 PM | Reply

Proof that 2020 election was stolen and the Deep State worked hand in hand with China. The likely-hood that COVID was an intentional biological weapon attack and not an accidental lab leak needs to be investigated. We are now at war with China and the Deep State. All three letter agencies need house cleaning. The Democrat party (the party of the permanent government bureaucracy) has to answer for crimes against the American people.

#11 | Posted by visitor_

So, is this piece of s*&^ this stupid? Or just a troll farm resident?

Either way, f*&^ off. Hold onelumpofs*&^s hand as you both step in front of that bus.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-17 01:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Proof that 2020 election was stolen and the Deep State worked hand in hand with China.
#11 | Posted by visitor_

Which President let that happen?

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-17 01:19 PM | Reply

You gotta be a special type of stoopid.

They are.

People like visitor are so stupid the word doesn't fully encompass the depths of their stupidity. A new word is needed to properly describe MAGA stupidity.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-17 01:20 PM | Reply

The projection continues unabated.

As with the constant claims of voter fraud, in which nearly all the fraudsters are Republicans, it's Trump who's trying to steal elections.

#24 | Posted by cbob at 2026-07-17 01:27 PM | Reply

Personally, I cleave to the sound of the Spanish baboso - it conveys imagery associated with both idiocy and droolimg.

#25 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-17 01:27 PM | Reply

The Iran War is not having the correct effect in fully distracting Americans from the Epstein Files that Todd Blanche refuses to release.

So trumpy also needs to create another distraction stat!

Tampering with Americans fair and free elections fills this need.

Which also is just another attempt to prevent him from being held accountable in the mid terms.

Win-win for Facism.

#26 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-17 01:39 PM | Reply

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-17 11:44 AM

This is the kind of idiocy we're dealing with. I even see crap like this among MAGAts I know personally. Their brains have melted.

Humanity is doomed.

#27 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-07-17 01:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Men like Visitor_ have been belittled and ridiculed their entire lives.

Trump is their chance to get revenge on a world that has treated them so unfairly.

He didn't reason himself into becoming a Trumper. So you're not going to be able to reasin him out of it.

"It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response."

Visitor_ responded exactly as expected.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-17 02:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Vistard is just another Joe Dirt given sudden relevance by a hateful President who thinks and speaks like him.

In 2 years or even less (the mid terms and accountability IS coming) he will be back under the rock he crawled out from crying about how unfair the world is to him.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-17 02:11 PM | Reply

@#29 ... In 2 years or even less (the mid terms and accountability IS coming) ...

Tangentially related ...

Bombshell Poll Reveals Trump's MAGA Base Crumbling as Midterms Loom
www.thedailybeast.com

... President Donald Trump's approval rating is plummeting, even among his most loyal bloc.

A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll spells trouble for the party ahead of the midterms, showing Trump is stuck at 37 percent. Even more damning, though, is that a growing share of his own Republican base is losing enthusiasm for him.

The erosion runs deepest among his most committed backers. A new low of just 15 percent of Americans say they "approve strongly" of Trump, down from 19 percent in February, while 22 percent "approve somewhat." It marks the first Post-Ipsos poll in which a majority of Trump's approvers back him only "somewhat" rather than strongly, a sharp reversal from his first term, when roughly two-thirds of his supporters approved strongly.

Among Republican-leaning independents, approval has slipped to 52 percent, even as 81 percent of Republicans overall still back him. Trump remains most popular among rural adults (50 percent), white men without college degrees (53 percent), white Catholics (57 percent) and white evangelical Protestants (70 percent). ...


#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-17 02:36 PM | Reply

#31 | Posted by qcp at 2026-07-17 02:41 PM | Reply

It was pretty shocking, The President of the United States, brazenly tryin to fool the idiot half of the population with lies and easily-disproven "facts" when HE HIMSELF, was responsible for more election tampering than any foreign power.

#32 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-07-17 02:49 PM | Reply

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