Former President Donald Trump is the Grand Pooh-Bah of liars. The Washington Post documented him telling more than 30,000 lies or misleading claims over a four-year period.
Trump incessantly repeats his big white nationalist lie that massive election fraud occurred in areas populated by people of color.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,” as the saying goes, “people will eventually come to believe it.”
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 55% of Republicans believe Trump s “big lie.”
The claim was debunked by Trump s own Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and Attorney General Bill Barr (who behaved as Trump s personal attorney). More than 80 judges rejected more than 60 election cases after plaintiffs failed to prove fraud occurred. Public trust in those agencies is our democracy s foundation, but they weren t believed by MAGA supporters because Trump trashed them.
Recount Faces Week Off
The most visible piece of the audit the livestreamed hand recount of all 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots for president and U.S. Senate - is moving at a glacial pace.
At the end of this week, the recount will come to a temporary halt.
The Senate’s contract to use Veterans Memorial Coliseum for its hand count ends on Friday. The audit will have to clear out of the coliseum that day to make room for a week’s worth of Phoenix high school graduations.
As of Monday, a new contract between the Senate and the Arizona State Fair, the coliseum’s operator, had not been signed.
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