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How to Cover a Coup… or Whatever Trump is Doing

November 12, 2020 · 1:15 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Margaret Sullivan: “President Trump lost. The nation knows it. The world knows it. And, although he won’t admit it, he certainly knows it, too. But because he is claiming otherwise — with his Republican enablers joining the chorus — this past week has presented the reality-based press with a strange and extremely important challenge.”

“How do you cover something that, at worst, lays the groundwork for a coup attempt and, at best, represents a brazen lie that could be deeply damaging to American democracy?”

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