This is the result of letting a lie fester and never putting it to rest. Trump has woven an entire alternate reality with lies. It will be the downfall of our country. The president of the most powerful country in the world lied his ass of his entire term and got away with it. There is no way to expose top level lies and put them to rest.

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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda chief

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To Donald Trump, the truth was his greatest enemy, so he dubbed it "fake" news and the morons believed him.