Nearly a decade after the turbulent 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump is once again trying to drag the origins of the infamous “Russiagate” saga back into the courtroom. His renewed effort to revive a dismissed civil lawsuit against Hillary Clinton represents far more than a legal dispute-it is a symbolic showdown over one of the most divisive political controversies in modern American history. What Trump is attempting now could reshape public understanding of the 2016 election, test the boundaries of political accountability, and potentially expose long-buried contradictions within the US intelligence and political establishments.

The current legal battle stems from a 108-page lawsuit Trump filed in 2022, accusing Hillary Clinton, senior Democrats, and numerous officials of orchestrating a broad conspiracy to deceive the American public by falsely linking his presidential campaign to Russia. Trump argued that Clinton and her allies knowingly pushed a fraudulent narrative of Kremlin collusion-a narrative that ultimately sparked years of investigations, media hysteria, and political paralysis.

However, US District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismissed the case, declaring that Trump had filed too late-missing the two-year statute of limitations-and had failed to prove concrete personal or financial harm. For many, that ruling signaled the end of Trump’s last major attempt to legally counterattack over Russiagate. But in typical Trump fashion, the former president is refusing to let the matter go.

On November 18, Trump’s attorneys appeared before an appeals court in Alabama, hoping to convince a........

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