Why debate your opponents when you already command the loyalty of so many Republican voters?
“[M]y lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment,” he wrote on social media.
It should go without saying that no such evidence will ever emerge. But Trump’s supporters are remarkably invested in the idea that he is not only not misleading them but actually a source of truth-telling.In that same CBS News-YouGov poll, respondents were asked the extent to which various individuals or organizations were purveyors of honesty. Probable Republican primary voters were most likely to say that their friends and family generally said true things, with Trump running a close second.
Trump’s reputation for honesty among his supporters is, ironically, rooted in his indifference about saying things that are true. His emergence in 2015 as the guy who would elevate false claims from the right-wing rhetorical fringe struck his audience — themselves consumers of many of those claims — as unusually honest.
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