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President Donald Trump’s presentation Thursday night from the White House had all the drama of a final scene in a classic whodunnit. New documents pulled from the forgotten archives. Reports of guns, faked voter registration documents, gift card payments for forgeries. Documents that Barack Obama had tossed into “burn bags” to hide from his successor. Fake ballots printed by China, ballot rigging by Venezuela, North Korea eyeing changes to votes.
For Trump’s base—of which 66% already believe the 2020 results were rigged—the night was a capstone confirmation of their suspicions that the system is so corrupt that nothing can be trusted. Trump, with documents he said he declassified with the help of his spy chiefs, had finally cracked the case and proven that foreign actors put their thumb on the scales in an election that Trump lost.
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