Images from the history book, which is reportedly used by students in the 11th (graduating) grade, have circulated on social media in recent days. Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times (U.K.), posted a page from the book on Monday onto his X (formerly Twitter) account, translating that the book said Trump lost the election "as a result of obvious electoral fraud by the Democratic Party."
Trump and some of his allies are facing criminal charges, accused of attempting to interfere with the results of the 2020 election that President Joe Biden handily won, and Trump's claims of the election being rigged against him have been widely debunked in courts of law and elsewhere.
Trump has also been criticized for dishing out compliments to Russian President Vladimir Putin, though he has condemned Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Still, some Russian analysts have suggested that the Kremlin may prefer Trump winning in 2024 over Biden.
© KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. A new Russian textbook reportedly claims Trump lost the 2020 election because it was rigged by the Democratic Party.
When contacted for more information about the textbook, Sonin provided Newsweek with a PDF copy of the book. He also told Newsweek that he didn't doubt the authenticity of its contents and that the book's publication was announced earlier this year during a press conference by the book's authors and Sergei Kravstov, Russia's minister of education.
Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Education via email on Tuesday night for comment.
On Tuesday, Bennetts posted another excerpt from the textbook onto X, which included a photograph of Biden wearing a mask designed to reduce the spread of respiratory illnesses.
According to Bennetts, the excerpt made unproven claims about the president.
"On (masked) Biden from the same Russian school textbook 'His entire political career has been accompanied by corruption scandals. He and his family have commercial 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 support for the country in its efforts to defend itself against Russia. Biden has also publicly disparaged Putin by calling the Russian leader a "pure thug" and a "murderous dictator."
In Kremlin-controlled media, Biden is frequently criticized, whereas Russian journalists often cover Trump more favorably.
Reader Comments
Not so much in the age of the Internet. It really bugs these dirtbags that their version of the story isn't universally accepted and promoted. That's why they want to crash the Internet with cyber attacks and remake it to better control the narrative.
Education in the USA has destroyed education. It has created these Woke snowflakes who can't think, can't reason, can't analyze.
What is the result? Stupidity. Can you run a corporation or a government on stupidity? The AI they create will have to be repairable by AI. Let's see how far that gets them.
That's how I interpreted this.
I'm pretty sure most of the Trump fans believed for almost 3 years that the elections were fraudulent. The Russians saying it hardly moves them. Selective cognition & thinking is no prerogative of neocons and Bidonistas.
He claimed Russia included statements into those textbooks, describing the Jewish religion as an alien worshipping cult.
Since I appreciate all of Clif's work, I don't want him discredited by anti-UFOers.
I consider the possibility that he is correct in this regard.