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Big Lie Two Is Here, and It’s Far More Insidious Than Big Lie One

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The Big Lie, as it quickly became known, was that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. He’s still out there peddling this nonsense, and a lot of people still believe it, though thankfully, they constitute a clear minority of voters.
But now there’s a new lie being peddled. Call it Big Lie Two. Trump has been hawking this one for a while too, but it has been, to my mind, oddly little remarked-upon. That needs to change: Big Lie Two is more insidious and dangerous than Big Lie One, for two reasons. First, it has nothing to do with the settled past, but rather with the unsettled present and future. And second, unlike Big Lie One, a majority of Americans believe it.
The lie is that the indictments against Trump represent a collective effort to stop him from running for president. Trump talks of this all the time; “election interference” is the phrase he often uses. They can’t stop me legitimately, he says—they know I won in 2020, and they know I’ll win again, so this is how they’re trying to block me.
It’s not true. What’s true is this. Credible evidence has emerged on a number of fronts that Trump may have broken the law: that he absconded with boxes of sensitive, classified documents to Florida; that he approved a hush-money payment to a woman with whom he’d had sexual relations; that he tried to influence officials in Georgia to rig the 2020 election; and that he led or directed an insurrection against the government of the United States.
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We’ll see what we see. But for now, it’s tragic from a democratic perspective that so many people believe something that isn’t merely untrue but is the opposite of the truth. Trump is being prosecuted because of what he did, not because of what he is doing today or might do tomorrow.
The full Orwell quote, by the way, is: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” It comes from a 1946 essay ruminating over the problem of “plain, unmistakable facts being shirked by people who in another part of their mind are aware to those facts.” If people can’t see this utterly lawless man for who he is, or if they allow their cynicism about the system to overpower their distrust of him, then we will wake up next November 6 counting our brittle democracy’s numbered days.
Commentary:
Big lie number 2 is that all these court cases are election interference. The author needs to read EO 13848. And maybe he’ll get an idea of what’s Happening here.
In the social media, there is still a very concerted effort to attack Trump and turn people against him. Yesterday, I found a question in the French language section of Quora which asked why do so many people still support Trump despite the many indictments against him? I answered that it’s because his supporters don’t think he is guilty of anything and that they view him as a victim of political persecution similar to what happens in Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela.
Just a note... this is coming from a Leftist and media source strongly biased toward Progressive Socialist causes through election and/or political affiliation.
According to the author Tomasky, Trump is guilty before trial, a good indication that he`s in favor of Marxist sham trials.
Which, as any Georgia resident knows, is an impossibility in Fulton County. If the venue is changed to any county with a fair minded and independent population, the case falls apart, due to its lack of merit.