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Edition · December 1, 2020
The Daily Fuckup: December 1, 2020 Edition
Barr publicly knifed Trump’s election-fraud fantasy, Georgia officials warned about the violence Trump was stoking, and the post-loss meltdown kept widening into a full constitutional mess.
On December 1, 2020, the Trump project’s central lie hit a wall: Attorney General Bill Barr said the Justice Department had found no evidence of fraud on a scale that could change the election, undercutting Trump’s core post-loss message. In Georgia, election officials were forced to warn that the president’s fraud rhetoric was helping fuel threats and potential violence. The day’s biggest Trump-world screwups were not just embarrassing; they were corrosive, amplifying disinformation, deepening the institutional rupture, and making the already-losing side look even more detached from reality.
Closing take
December 1 was a reminder that Trump’s post-election playbook was no longer just denial. It was denial with official rebukes, public blowback, and a growing record that would age badly in court, in politics, and in history.
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