Donald Trump Is Lying About an Assassination Attempt and Nobody Cares
Americans have accepted that the Republican party is an illiberal institution and decided that it doesn't matter.
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1. In the Line of Fire
On Tuesday, a Republican member of Congress alleged that the FBI, at the direction of the Department of Justice and President Joseph R. Biden, had ordered an assassination attempt on former president and current nominee Donald Trump.
Donald Trump posted about this attempt himself.
All yesterday I was waiting for shoes to drop because an attempted assassination of a major-party nominee, orchestrated by a sitting president, should be the biggest story in American politics since . . .?
I don’t know? Maybe since the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter?
Here are some things that would happen if the FBI had planned to assassinate Donald Trump:
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