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The lie does not disappear with the liar. That's the bad thing about Trump

2021-01-17T01:28:55.412Z


In November Donald Trump said that he had won an election that he had lost. And there was the assault on the Capitol. If that lie is kept alive, any future electoral victory could be discredited, argues historian Timothy Snyder. To what world do their falsehoods lead us?


A demonstration against Donald Trump during one of his visits to the UK in July 2018.Mike Kemp / Getty Images / In Pictures via Getty Images

When Donald Trump appeared before his followers on January 6 and urged them to head to the US Capitol, he was doing business as usual.

He had never taken electoral democracy seriously or accepted its legitimacy in the United States ...

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