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Wash. Post Tape is Vintage Trump: Gaslighting, Conspiracies, Crime
Senate failed to punish Trump in ’19; he’s still breaking the law
I took a break from writing on Medium over the Holiday season. And over the weekend, I was searching for ideas for a column. I should have known better. Even in the waning days of Donald Trump’s idiocracy, there’s always an hourly scandal. And on Sunday, The Washington Post’s recording of Trump’s phone call with Georgia election officials dropped.
Alex Jones on crack
The recording, which was deliberately leaked, is vintage Trump. I listened to the full recording, and it’s one hour of Trump gaslighting, threatening Georgia election officials and spouting conspiracy theories that sound like Alex Jones on crack. He sounded like your crazy uncle before he gets carted off to the nursing home. Here are some of Trump’s greatest hits from the recording:
- He claimed 18,000 dead people voted. Another Trump lawyer on the call claimed 5,000 dead people voted. One of the election…
