JB Pritzker: Lies and the Lying Liar Who Tells Them

https://jbpritzker.substack.com/p/lies-and-the-lying-liar-who-tells

Tonight, Donald Trump reminded us again just how desperate he is to hang onto a Congress he controls now but is likely to lose in November.

The president floated a flurry of misleading strands of intelligence and suggested they are bombshell revelations of an international conspiracy against him. With his vague claims of non-citizen and other ineligible voters on the rolls, he attempted to once again claim victimhood despite having won the presidency twice under the same rules under which he lost in 2020. For years now, we have heard him whine using fakery about stolen elections. And after many detailed investigations, legitimate prosecutors could find only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of invalid voters or election tampering.

Trump’s purpose in making us listen to another round of lies about the 2020 election is clear. First, he wants to provide an excuse for passing laws to deny voting rights to citizens who disagree with him, thereby ensuring MAGA Republicans will win and he won’t be held accountable for his greed and corruption in office. Second, he needs to validate his long-time narcissistic belief in his victimhood.

Tonight’s speech wasn’t some clear-eyed national security assessment. It was an attempt by Donald Trump to muddy the waters just enough among the American public that he could pretend he didn’t actually lose the 2020 election.

After nearly six years of waiting for any evidence of stuffed ballot boxes or voting machine tampering, nothing of the sort has been found. Most Americans are sick of Trump talking about his fake claims of a stolen 2020 election. I, for one, find laughable the notion that his election was rigged, but all the other Republicans who won on the same ballot that night were legitimate winners. It’s also maddening that he has persistently lied about siccing a mob on the U.S. Capitol and has never been held accountable. Trump pardoned thousands of insurrectionists, and nearly a hundred of them have gone on to face more criminal charges, including serious ones like homicide, kidnapping, crimes involving child sex abuse material, and plotting to assassinate elected officials.

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