Seeing these instances laid out like this in a federal indictment is a remarkable catalog of the breadth of Trump’s deception, writes jamescdownie.
, regarding Trump’s claims about the 2020 election: “These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false. In fact, the Defendant was notified repeatedly that his claims were untrue.”cites numerous instances where Trump allegedly made “knowingly false statements” even after those “best positioned to know the facts” in his inner circle told him he was lying.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe “disabused the Defendant of the notion that the Intelligence Community’s findings regarding foreign interference would change the outcome of the election.” Trump “insinuated that more than ten thousand dead voters had voted in Georgia” four days after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told him that was false.
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