Trump and Russiagate, reconsidered

Published July 24, 2025 5:00am ET



President Donald Trump’s administration has dropped a bombshell in his second term that threatens to blow up the narrative surrounding the investigation that cast a long shadow over his first.

Newly declassified documents cast doubt on whether Russian interference in the 2016 election was fully intended to help Trump win, implicating the president’s political opponents in the Democratic administration serving at the time in jumping to that conclusion.

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