Trump’s Big-Lie World Took a Beating

Edition · June 13, 2022

Trump’s Big-Lie World Took a Beating

Backfilled for June 13, 2022, this edition centers on the House Jan. 6 committee’s hearing showing Trump had been told, repeatedly and directly, that the fraud claims were garbage — and kept pushing them anyway.

June 13 was a bad day for the Trump lie machine. The House Jan. 6 committee used a public hearing to lay out testimony that Trump’s own senior people told him there was no real evidence of election fraud, yet he kept pressing the stolen-election story and the pressure campaign around it. The result was another ugly reminder that the core of Trump’s post-2020 operation was not confusion but stubborn, evidence-free refusal to accept reality.

Closing take

For Trump, the damage on June 13 was less about one new scandal than about a familiar one getting fresher, louder, and better documented. The hearing gave his opponents more tape, more testimony, and more reason to argue that the lie was deliberate, not delusional. In other words: same mess, newly embalmed in public record.

Ranked by how bad the fuckup was

5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.

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Jan. 6 Hearing Shows Trump Was Told He Lost — and Kept Lying Anyway

Big Lie Backfire Confidence 5/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

The House Jan. 6 committee used its June 13 hearing to present testimony and documents showing that Trump’s own advisers and appointees told him he had lost the 2020 election and that the fraud claims were baseless. Instead of backing off, he kept pushing the stolen-election narrative and treating it like a political strategy. That made the hearing less a revelation than a confirmation of what critics have been arguing for a year and a half: Trump was not misled, he was the one doing the misleading.

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