Trump Drags America Deep Down the Rabbit Hole
By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
For six long years, Donald Trump has regularly alleged that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, despite the thorough debunking of his and his allies’ claims by federal and state governments and the courts. Now the 47th president has put the entire prestige of the United States, and its law enforcement and intelligence agencies, behind the audacious assertion of a vast conspiracy to corrupt that election and cover up innumerable acts of treason. In an unusual “Address to the Nation” on Thursday night, Trump announced a series of “revelations” about election security that will thrill the most credulous of conspiracy theorists with their scope and the bottomless depravity they purport to expose.
