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'Why is this happening?' Republicans panic as Trump's lies pile up
The Senate Is Still Pretending This Is NormalA test of obedience, not a question of doubtFox’s Chad Pergram asked Sen. Cynthia Lummis whether Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were “duly chosen and sworn.” Lummis answered with evasions about “concerns” in Georgia and elsewhere, while Trump is reportedly preparing another primetime attack on the legitimacy of the 2020 election. In the same news cycle, Trump’s DNI nominee Jay Clayton refused to say who won that election, then sat in silence when pressed.That is the story: not uncertainty, but institutional actors rehearsing deference to a lie.The…
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