“He Paid No Price for His Lies”: How Trump’s Bogus 2016 Election Claims Cleared the Way for 2020 Conspiracies

The presidency began with a lie. President Donald J. Trump, the forty-fifth president of the United States, a man having transformed from laughingstock to the most powerful man on the planet in five short years, woke up on January 21, 2017, in the White House. Here was a man who cared about status and power above all else, and on a blustery Saturday morning in Washington, Trump stirred early at the world’s most famous address, a place he now called home. He had done it. He woke up angry. Trump had long been an obsessive cable TV watcher, a habit… Read Full Article