After covering for a stolen election and pushing a plandemic the MSM now lies about everything. This is how a propaganda machine works. Joseph Goebbels would be proud. Considering the amount of lies in this article it is obvious that the MSM is panicking. Begin Article, my comments in parentheses: Ex-President Donald Trump's big lie came full circle (The left sure is big on circles) on Saturday as he traveled to Arizona to dangerously (dangerously? They didn't use that world with the riots in Seattle or Portland.) seize (seize? sounds aggressive) on the false fruits (false fruits? Isn't that the government now?) of a sham election (sham?) "audit" precipitated by his own discredited claims (discredited claims? When were they discredited? Are audits taking place around the country and bearing real fruit?) the 2020 election was stolen. On a late afternoon of delusion (Inert bad demeaning adjectives early in the article) and incitement, Trump offered a preview of how he could exploit grievances of millions of supporters who buy his lies about voter fraud to power a possible new presidential run in the future. (A new Presidential run? Trump made it clear early on that a redress of thee crimes on Nov 3rd. had to happen before this country moves forward.) His speech underscored the nation's split reality over last November's election (is the nation really split? Where are Biden's supporters when he speaks?) — the real one in which he lost and President Joe Biden was fairly elected (fairly elected? RLMAO!) and the nonsensical (nonsensical?) but powerful (a word of truth, yeah) one that he sells (sells? what does the media do? Sell lies?) to his supporters. The now self-sustaining myth (? WTH is a self-sustaining myth? Obviously you have to work har to keep the myth that Biden won going) that Trump was improperly ejected from power (we call it a stolen election) is at the center of a belief system (belief system? Like believing in Man Made Global Warming?) that the ex-President is imposing on his party (people look pretty excited in fact it's the people who are pushing the audits not Trump) and is making a litmus test (how could a failed President make a litmus test?) for 2022 GOP candidates seeking his endorsement, including in the Arizona Senate race, which is one of the GOP's top targets as they try to take back the Senate. In his latest return to campaign speeches, Trump showered praise on Arizona state senators who organized the non-scientific audit. (Senators didn't organize it the people did.) He insisted he wasn't involved, trying to create a false impression of independence and legitimacy in a politicized process inspired by his lies. (wow, that sentence is just over the top with lies and obfuscation) "There is no way they win elections without cheating," the former President said of Democrats, at a packed event entitled -- with Orwellian overtones (Orwellian? Where did I hear that before? Oh yeah, it is used to describe the democrats. Project much?) -- the "Rally to Protect Our Elections." The one-term, twice-impeached (Let me rephrase, the stolen election to remove a sitting President and the false impeachment of angry partisans) ex-commander-in-chief related prolonged and false stories of election fraud across the country. (What stories were false? Any examples?) He also claimed that many more Republican-run states were seeking their own audits of election results, even though multiple judges have ruled that there was no election fraud. (Multiple judges say there is no voter fraud and we believe them? Don't politicians appoint and elect judges? Any of them democrat judges?) Trump's appearance was full of the usual bluster, boasting, self-pity and too many falsehoods to count, (surely you can name one thing) and was in many ways a sideshow (when the foundation of America is attacked (free and fair elections, I wouldn't call addressing it a sideshow) compared to the critical current challenges — including a pandemic (there they go using the plandemic. Planned much?) that is quickly worsening again (how do we know? There is no isolation of the virus. Oh yeah, this media tells us it's so.) because millions of Republican voters will not get vaccinated. (That's strange as Trump got the vaccines to market in record time. You'd think these dumb people would just follow their leader) But his appearance was also a warning of one of the most dangerous problems haunting a divided nation's deeply polarized politics (again, divided country? This is only true if you call the people divided against totalitarian rule divided.) — the fact that lies and conspiracy theories now represent sincerely held views of a large minority of the electorate thanks to Trump's mastery of demagoguery and the endless flattery of a compliant right-wing propaganda machine. (Wow! Right wing propaganda machine? Project much?) Trump reinvents the big lie (Another WOW! This whole articl is the BIG Lie.) The ex-President (make sure you remind everyone he's the EX President. Sounds like they are worried he's not).did tell his supporters to get the vaccine on Saturday — but in such a way that offered an out for those who have bought into conservative (it's not just misinformation it's CONSERVATIVE) misinformation about it -- and in an attack on Biden, (Attacking the Germans for invading France? Is that a good use of words?) he further politicized the issue. Yet again, Trump showed that he was not willing to diminish his own political capital for the greater good. (would someone tell me where you learn to write propaganda like this? Creative writing classes?) "I recommend that you take it, but I also believe in your freedoms 100%," Trump said, before adding, "because they don't trust the President, people aren't doing it." On the vaccine, and many other issues, Trump is seeking to do nothing less than create a new truth. "Does everybody here understand that the 2020 election was a total disgrace?" the ex-President said at the rally, inciting a frenzied chant of "Trump, Trump, Trump," that demonstrated how effective his wholesale lying has become. Trump also lashed out at Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for refusing to buy into his lies and conspiracies (lies and conspiracies?> Surely you can name one.) about the last election. He also attacked former Vice President Mike Pence for fulfilling his constitutional duty to oversee the certification of the election in Congress and former Attorney General William Barr for saying there was no election fraud. (Now we know Barr and Pence were bad actors not playing a part of some grand plan.) Here's the rest of the article without comment if you like to read fiction: Among unanswered questions is whether Trump's campaign of falsehoods and refusal to accept the result in 2020 — which is rife among his base voters — will further alienate the suburban and more moderate voters who were crucial in his defeat last November. The coming months and years will also show whether Republican voters — especially when the next presidential primary race heats up — want to spend the entire campaign going over lies about the last election or will seek new candidates who might share Trump's populist extremism but offer a path to the future. But there is no doubt about the power of Trump in fast forming primary races ahead of the midterm elections next year. A stream of pro-Trump candidates has made the journey to Arizona to curry favor with the ex-President by highlighting the unofficial audit that has so far shown no evidence of voter fraud but has twisted the facts about the election. In a briefing earlier this month, about the "audit" of votes in Maricopa County -- the crucial battleground where Biden outpaced Trump to win the state and its 11 electoral votes -- the firm running the process expressed multiple untruths. Doug Logan, the chief executive of Cyber Ninjas, a firm with no experience in election audits, claimed that the audit uncovered 74,243 mail-in ballots with no clear record of them being sent. The claim was quickly picked up by Trump and some of his supporters as the narrative of "magically appearing ballots" quickly gained steam among "Make America Great Again" supporters online. A CNN fact check found that there is no evidence of either fraud or significant problems with these ballots. There are complicated reasons why it is not unusual that Maricopa County's submitted ballot lists includes a number of voters that do not match up with requested-ballots list. Logan's comments appear to be informed by misunderstandings, deliberate or not, about the county's voting procedures. The situation has been explained by several election experts, including Garrett Archer, an election analyst at ABC15 television in Phoenix and a former official in the Arizona secretary of state's office, who is regarded as an expert on the state's election procedures. What is going on is 'dangerous' Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, called Trump a "sore loser" on CNN on Friday. On Saturday, she argued that the whole "audit" was designed to feed Trump's "ego, to placate his hurt feelings because he lost the election. And he's grifting a lot of people to pay for it instead of paying it for himself." The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Trump's political action committee had raised about $75 million so far this year but had not sent any money to the Arizona ballot review. When CNN's Pamela Brown told Hobbs that the ex-President's crowd was chanting "lock her up" in reference to her at the Saturday rally, Hobbs warned that he was playing with political fire. "What's going on right now really is dangerous and the former President is continuing to incite his followers to action that could end up with another insurrection and needs to be held to account for that," said Hobbs, who is running for governor in 2022. It doesn't actually matter to Trump or his supporters if the allegations made in the audit are true or not. Trump's list of supposed irregularities that he spouted in a speech, which was often incoherent, made very little sense. But the conspiracies help fuel the massive nationwide lie that Trump created in order to avoid admitting he lost the election. Any morsel of information, no matter how quickly it is discredited, further expands the big lie. And as months pass, those who buy in travel so far from the truth that facts become meaningless. The impact on American democracy, however, of millions of Americans losing faith in the election system — which is actually remarkably free of fraud — is deeply corrosive. Trump's perpetuation of his own election fraud is taking place alongside a broader Republican effort to not just whitewash the behavior of the ex-President and his supporters during the Capitol insurrection on January 6 but to write an alternative history of events to cover up the truth. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who has anchored the GOP's bid to win back the House next year on Trump, and Republicans are arguing that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for what happened, apparently because she did not beef up security at the Capitol (even though the speaker is not in charge of security). These claims are coinciding with regular releases of footage from the Justice Department and elsewhere of Trump supporters beating up police officers as they forced their way into the citadel of American democracy. But there is no place for evidence inside Trump's parallel reality bubble. Like the Capitol riot, the Arizona audit was sparked directly by Trump's lies that the election was stolen from him. Saturday was the latest sign that he intends to pollute future election cycles with his dangerous grand illusion.