In this September 18, 2020, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a "Great American Comeback" rally at Bemidji Regional Airport in Bemidji, Minnesota. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images/File

If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.

Covid and the ensuing lockdowns. The recession that followed. Civil unrest. And an historic attack on the US Capitol that shook our democracy to its core.

Nearly all of it happened on President Donald Trump’s watch. But Trump and his allies are increasingly pitching an alternate version of history, one in which this was all overseen by Joe Biden.

Trump’s social-media post late Saturday night was one of the most striking exa

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