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On the recordJanuary 5, 2025
How they described what happened four years ago is shear fantasy. We need to say that Donald trump in 2020 told a malignant flagrant lie and sold it to his supporters who came to Washington on the basis of that lie and stormed the Capitol on the erroneous impression that the election was fraudulent.
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David Axelrod
Democratic · Illinois

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Axelrod criticized Trump's narrative about the 2020 election and the Capitol riot.

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