Russian Textbooks State Trump Misplaced in Rigged Election

A brand new textbook for Russian students claims susceptible President Donald Trump misplaced the 2020 presidential election because of the voter fraud committed by the Democrats.

Photos from the historical past guide, which is reportedly frail by students within the 11th (graduating) grade, comprise circulated on social media in most modern days. Marc Bennetts, international correspondent for The Occasions (U.Okay.), posted a page from the guide on Monday onto his X (formerly Twitter) yarn, translating that the guide acknowledged Trump misplaced the election “as a results of obvious electoral fraud by the Democratic Occasion.”

Trump and a few of his allies are going through criminal charges, accused of attempting to interfere with the outcomes of the 2020 election that President Joe Biden handily gained, and Trump’s claims of the election being rigged in opposition to him comprise been broadly debunked in courts of legislation and in several places.

Trump has additionally been criticized for allotting compliments to Russian President Vladimir Putinalthough he has condemned Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Silent, some Russian analysts comprise suggested that the Kremlin might maybe well prefer Trump a success in 2024 over Biden.

Konstantin Sonin, professor at the College of Chicago who normally writes about Russian politics, additionally shared the Russian textbook’s false claims about the 2020 election on X.

When contacted for extra info about the textbook, Sonin equipped Newsweek with a PDF reproduction of the guide. He additionally told Newsweek that he didn’t doubt the authenticity of its contents and that the guide’s e-newsletter turned into once introduced earlier this year eventually of a press conference by the guide’s authors and Sergei Kravstov, Russia’s minister of education.

Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Training by e-mail on Tuesday night for comment.

On Tuesday, Bennetts posted one other excerpt from the textbook onto X, which included a record of Biden carrying a camouflage designed to slit motivate the spread of respiratory ailments.

In accordance to Bennetts, the excerpt made unproven claims about the president.

“On (masked) Biden from the equivalent Russian faculty textbook ‘His total political profession has been accompanied by corruption scandals. He and his family comprise industrial interests in Ukraine,'” Bennetts wrote.

Since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Biden has been one of Kyiv’s strongest allies and has continued to pledge toughen for the nation in its efforts to defend itself in opposition to Russia. Biden has additionally publicly disparaged Putin by calling the Russian leader a “pure thug” and a “murderous dictator.”

In Kremlin-managed media, Biden is the least bit times criticized, whereas Russian journalists repeatedly duvet Trump extra favorably.