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"We should be united, not divided."
He said that tonight — after spending the better part of an hour doing the opposite.
The election was rigged. The machines can be hacked. Non-citizens are voting by the hundreds of thousands. He told half the country the other half is stealing from them, and he brought props: a stack of declassified intelligence documents he said would prove it.
They didn't.
Watching live, a New York Times reporter noted that Trump "did not actually assert or provide any specific evidence that any vote was changed or altered."
Forty minutes on a stolen election, and not a single claim that one vote actually changed.
His own January 2020 intelligence memo even warned that false claims of hacked machines are what erode public faith in elections.
He read the warning. Then he embodied it.
This is the oldest trick there is: break the country's trust, then offer yourself as the only one who can restore it. Manufacture the division, then ask for unity.
The distrust was never a side effect of the speech. It was the entire point of it.
We see it.
And in November, we'll remember it.
