Jim Erickson 🌊

Jim Erickson 🌊

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Former newspaper reporter and university science writer, recently retired.

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Trump continued to press state and GOP officials, the report said, in Arizona, Michigan and elsewhere.
He “engaged in these efforts even though trusted state and party officials had told him from the outset that there was no evidence of fraud in the election.” Washington Post 1-14-25

In his report, Mr. Smith took Mr. Trump to task not only for his efforts to reverse the results of a free and fair election, but also for consistently encouraging “violence against his perceived opponents” throughout the chaotic weeks between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021. New York Times 1-14-25

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest — forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” Hannah Arendt, 1950

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