Democracy Dies in Darkness
Opinion

Trump isn’t delusional. He’s something far worse.

Revisiting the 2020 election and resetting our relationships with smartphones, in readers’ eyes.

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President Donald Trump outside the White House on Feb. 13. (Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post)

In his Feb. 19 Thursday Opinion column, “The 2020 ‘stolen election’ obsession,” George F. Will referred to “Donald Trump’s belief in widespread fraud in the casting and counting of 2020 ballots.” Will credits Trump with sincerely — if deludedly — believing he won the 2020 election.

Nonsense. In light of the thousands of lies Trump has told over the years, shouldn’t we start with the presumption that Trump’s baseless “stolen election” claim is simply a conscious lie?

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