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by acc_297 481 days ago
Americans have a long history of convincing themselves that their president is a Russian agent
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Really? I don't remember that. When was the last example?

Certainly the Republican presidents never came under such suspicion.

Eisenhower was accused of being a communist. Look up John Birch Society.
This is exactly what I was thinking of but could not remember the name of that society
Good point, but those guys were complete psychos. They had zero actual grounds for suspicion compared to the behavior Trump has exhibited, over and over, in plain sight.