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election denial
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
Trump used a Sunday cable interview to revive claims that Dominion voting systems had changed votes, that foreign countries were counting ballots, and that the election had been stolen. The problem, as his own former cybersecurity chief pointed out the same day, is that those claims had already been repeatedly debunked and had no evidentiary backbone. It was a classic Trump move — double down on the nonsense, then act shocked when the nonsense keeps being nonsense.
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covid fallout
Confidence 4/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess
Trump allies kept moving through the post-election fraud roadshow, and the health consequences were still obvious. Giuliani and other campaign figures had been crisscrossing the country pushing unsupported claims, and multiple people around that orbit had already tested positive for COVID-19. It was a second-order screwup with first-order consequences: the same people trashing democracy were also helping spread a virus through packed, mask-light political theater.
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