Trump’s Orwellian rewrite of 2020

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Welcome to The Logoff: Economic chaos from President Donald Trump’s tariffs continues to dominate headlines, but today I want to focus on his continuing effort to rewrite the history of the 2020 election — and his troubling use of government power to push the lie that he won it.

What’s the big picture? Trump has long insisted that Joe Biden’s 2020 victory was fraudulent. That’s a lie. What’s true is that Trump lost the 2020 election but tried to stay in power anyway. But Trump has now accumulated enough power — and is willing enough to abuse that power — to impose consequences for noncompliance with the official narrative. It’s the exact kind of abuse the First Amendment was intended to prevent.

And with that, it’s time to log off…

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