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The Big Lie is back and coming for U.S. elections
Los Angeles Times
|August 21, 2025
President Trump's attack on mail ballots isn't just a rehash of his 2020 claims, it's a pretext for disrupting the 2026 midterms
MATT ROURKE Associated Press RESEARCH shows that mail ballots aren't associated with rigged voting, as Trump claims.
LIKE MOST AMERICANS, including White House reporters apparently, I've tuned out Donald Trump's incessant Big Lie that he won the 2020 presidential election - "by a lot." That means his nonsense about rigged voting and Democrats' cheating goes mostly unchallenged, and he continues to undermine faith in U.S. elections. After all, it's not like anyone can shut him up.
Still, it’s time to quit tuning out. Whether a reporter on the beat or a citizen in conversation anywhere, pay attention and push back against Trump's un-American blather. Because in recent days the power-drunk president has in various ways telegraphed that his Big Lie isn’t just about a past election but a pretext for what he could do to disrupt the next one, the 2026 midterm elections for Congress.
Other 2020 election liars are paying a big price, literally. Just this week, right-wing Newsmax agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems, on top of $40 million in March to Smartmatic, to settle defamation lawsuits based on Newsmax's false reporting (echoing Trump) that the companies rigged voting machines for Joe Biden. Newsmax's penalty is of course dwarfed by the $787 million that Fox News paid to Dominion in 2023; in a pending trial, Smartmatic seeks $2.7 billion from Fox.
All the while, the president of the United States continues to spout the same slop, all but immune to legal action, as he sets the stage for 2026.
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