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Jennifer's avatar

Wow, Olivia, you swung for the bleachers and hit a grand slam. There are no more questions about how could this happen...it did, so let's get him and his rotten apples out of there.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Fiona Hill was one of the really brave people to speak out against tRump 1.0 machinations re: Ukraine, and got forced out for truth-telling. Also put Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in that category also...truth to power, and you're out. Which, I suppose, leads to tRump 2.0, and flunkies, bootlickers, and liars staffing his regime...it's who they are, full stop.

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Ben Prickril's avatar

If Trump read this there’d be no doubt he’d label it a HOAX - a badge of honor if ever there was one.

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Adam Cherensky's avatar

If there were a MAGA Anonymous recovery group (which hopefully there will be very soon) this essay would be it’s manifesto. Perfection.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

I forged Jeff’s 2003 birthday card, as part of the Democratic army of hoaxers, moving on to Jewish space lasers in homage to my father’s participation, like Jack White’s mother, in Apollo 11. The moon landing, Lauren. My enmity toward Donald began while reading SPY, nursing my two older sons.

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Char Pope's avatar

Brilliantly written and true. Thank you, Olivia!!

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Erica O's avatar

If you prefer to believe the lies, have at it. The rest of us prefer the truth. And the truth is, trump's presidency is a hoax. Based on nothing more than a washed up celebrity reality TV show host who was depicted as a successful businessman. That was the hoax. Fortunately, a lot of his so called followers are beginning to, dare I say it, WAKE UP!

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Pasqual Allen's avatar

I’ve been waiting for you for your response on all this. You make so much sense of course well said. You wrote this wonderful. How can he say hoax to all the victims? Were they a hoax? It’s like he’s saying to them you’re all lying. It didn’t happen. This is made up. Like they have to go through all this again. The people that didn’t believe them.

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Debbie Park's avatar

What a powerful message for all of us, Olivia!! We know about his hoax fetish but you revealed it so precisely and so saliently that no one with a rational mind can turn a shoulder or a blind eye to it! Your arguments line up like ranks of soldiers on a battlefield holding the line on truth! Thank you for your writing and your work to pull us out of this hoax of a regime!!!!

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VRiley's avatar

After the government is overturned. The word Hoax should be banned and all of the words he banned should be brought back.

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M Whitehead's avatar

Excellent post and best explanation I’ve read. Please share widely. Thank you Olivia.

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Jim's avatar

Yup! All of this is so true! Now let's untangle the idiot's irritating use of "witch hunt".

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Sandra's avatar

We wouldn’t let our children get away with this, yet we allow the freaking president to. And it seems like good ole Kellyanne blessed it with her alternative facts.

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Ken1's avatar

Miscreant Trump is the ultimate hoax that the mental pathology of psychopathy plays on the normality of sanity and objective reality.

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BRYAN VILA's avatar

Great summary, Olivia!

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LindyLoo's avatar

I will never understand how anyone could believe anything that comes out of the mouth of a sociopathic liar. The felon is a despicable narcissist. Why don't we talk about his mental illness instead of his lies?

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P J Johnston's avatar

Thank you for all you do Olivia! Another overused word that could be a simile is "witchhunt"! They could be exchangeable in most conversations. And my favorite word "WOKE"! It means something completely different but "HE" has used that word too often (not truly knowing what it means) and one more is Antifa. I could go on and on. Basically he just spews whatever his brain thinks in any moment! No matter what! But of course when he says it's a hoax (Epstein) why oh why did Ghislaine get a commuted sentence in a minimum security prison. I think it says it all!

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