‘A dangerous cancer’: fourth hearing revealed the human cost of Trump’s delusion
‘A dangerous cancer’: fourth hearing revealed the human cost of Trump’s delusion
By David Smith in Washington
Donald Trump was the most powerful man in the world. But he was also a paranoid fantasist who did not care how his lies destroyed people’s lives.
That was the picture of the former US president that came into focus with startling clarity at Tuesday’s hearing of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Related: January 6 hearings: state officials testify on Trump pressure to discredit election
Dead people, shredded ballots and a USB drive that was in fact a ginger mint were all part of the delusional narrative of election fraud peddled by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. They would have been as comical as flat-earthers but for the way they posed a danger to both individual citizens and American democracy.
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By David Smith in Washington
Donald Trump was the most powerful man in the world. But he was also a paranoid fantasist who did not care how his lies destroyed people’s lives.
That was the picture of the former US president that came into focus with startling clarity at Tuesday’s hearing of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Related: January 6 hearings: state officials testify on Trump pressure to discredit election
Dead people, shredded ballots and a USB drive that was in fact a ginger mint were all part of the delusional narrative of election fraud peddled by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. They would have been as comical as flat-earthers but for the way they posed a danger to both individual citizens and American democracy.
READ MORE: ‘A dangerous cancer’: fourth hearing revealed the human cost of Trump’s delusion https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-...
In a phrase that captured the president’s own mindset, Giuliani allegedly said: “We’ve got lots of theories but we just don’t have the evidence.”
Did Rudy slip up and tell the truth, here?