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The Trump Presidency Is Still an Active Crime Scene

October 14, 2021 · 10:59 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Susan Glasser: “The bottom line is that the story of the Trump Presidency still has important unanswered questions that the forthcoming pile of books cannot answer. And they have an urgency about them that unanswered questions about past Administrations usually don’t, given the ongoing threat to our democracy: Trump is not only preparing to run again but is determined to mold the G.O.P. into a single-issue Party, the ideology of which consists solely of disputing the legitimacy of the election that turned him out of office.”

“The Trump Presidency is not yet, alas, simply a matter for booksellers and book writers; it’s an active crime scene.”

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