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The Guardian - US
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Jamil Smith

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own

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‘The president’s grievance is 2020, but his government is targeting 2026.’ Photograph: Saul Loeb/UPI/Shutterstock

There is a version of this country in which Donald Trump tells Americans the truth he has been handed: that their elections are secure. Once, he apparently wanted to.

The Atlantic reported after Thursday night’s address that a February 2020 election-security briefing pleased Trump so much he wanted to announce the news himself. The press conference never happened. The election did, and Trump lost it.

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