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The Guardian - US
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Sam Levine in Milwaukee

Election denialism front and center at Republican national convention

Trump on giant screen while Don Jr speaks underneath
Donald Trump Jr speaks at the Republican convention. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

“Don’t fuck us,” Lara Logan, the former CBS News anchor turned to me and said. “If you use the word conspiracy theorist in your story, I’m going to haunt you when I die.”

It was the third day of the Republican national convention and Logan was standing in the atrium of a hotel that was once the old Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee. She was there to moderate a presentation by Jim Hoft, the founder of the far-right website Gateway Pundit, and his twin brother, Joe, who is also a contributor to the site.

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