Philip Bump: “For the past few months, President Trump has been teasing — or, perhaps, hoping to will into existence — some earthshaking revelation demonstrating how unfairly he has been treated or how suspect his general-election opponent happens to be. He has repeatedly promised that perhaps there would be an indictment of those he claims unfairly targeted him for investigation during and after the 2016 election. He has insisted that information about former vice president Joe Biden obtained by his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani is shocking, if not proof of illegality. Yet, despite his urgent claims, the Earth remains unshaken.”
“The reason for that is fairly simple. Trump’s presentation of his own suffering and of his opponent’s malfeasance were always detached from reality. They were useful for filling hours of airtime on Fox News, but, outside of the conservative media greenhouse where Trump himself gets heated up, there simply wasn’t evidence that Trump’s charges were accurate.”
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