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During President Donald Trump‘s first term, the dumbest talking heads of the Democratic Party deluded themselves into believing that rather than acting of his own volition, the president was blackmailed into acting at the behest of the Russian government. The ensuing decade debunked Russiagate so thoroughly that it really ought to have permanently dispelled the notion that Trump ever does anything he doesn’t want.