white house. it is objectively nuts. but it is real enough to them, because they prefer that to reality, and importantly, because trump keeps saying it s real. and because republicans in states from arizona to georgia to wisconsin and beyond, they keep backing them up, saying there was something wrong with the election in those states, something wrong that needs to be audited or recounted or investigated. and as nuts as it all is, it is basically the agreed upon reality among trump supporters coast-to-coast now. so we re about to enter into a particularly volatile time with this. because trump is going to give a speech to the north carolina republican party at their state convention the day after tomorrow. in a fund-raising email about that speech, he s billing it a as a presidential address, because he is pretending to still be president. he sent out fund-raising texts today, calling that speech an official presidential speech, as if he is still president. next week in wisconsin, the
end up being the achilles heel for cryptocurrency. that s michigan point. you couldn t make normal bank transfers for this kind of thing. so someone is gonna crack down on this. nicole perlroth, thanks for joining us tonight. that isgoing. nicole perlroth, thank you so much for joining us. the rachel maddow starts right now. thank you, my frent. president trump s postmaster general, louis dejoy, who has been trying to dismantle and sabotage the u.s. post office for more than a year now, since he has been running it, today we learned that louis dejoy is under fbi investigation for an allegedly criminal political donation scheme that he ran out of his business for years before he got the post office gig during the trump administration. we have reported on that alleged scheme extensively here on the show, in part because it is
tyrant who s claiming to be president and he s not and the former leader must be reinstated by the people. that is something that doesn t end in a political place. that is a road that ends in a very bad place and we are way down that road already. and i m not trying to be scary about this, but i find the place we are in here to be scary. that s track one for the trump republican election fraud fantasy about 2020. there is a second track, though, on which that fantasy is also playing out. and that s the one you can see track its way through the considerable, considerable mud that s all over the floor of, for example, the republican-led missouri state legislature, which all of its problems, the one thing they want to work on. it s this opportunistic pretext. well, if trump s going to raise doubts all over the country about how elections are run and how votes are counted, then republicans can use that as an
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trump keeps saying it s real. and because republicans in states from arizona to georgia to wisconsin and beyond keep backing them up, saying there was something wrong with the election in the state, something that needs to be recounted or audited or investigated. and as nuts as it is it is the agreed upon reality for trump supporters from coast the coast now. we re about to enter into a particular will i volatile time because trump is going to give a speech tomorrow. in a fundraising email about that speech, he is billing it as a presidential address because he is pretending to still be president. he sent out fundraising texts today, calling that speech an official presidential speech as if he is still president. next week in wisconsin, the pillow company ceo mike lindell is hosting another of these trump is the real president convention things.