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Building the “Big Lie”: Inside the Creation of Trump’s Stolen Election Myth <[link removed]> Internal emails and interviews with key participants reveal for the first time the extent to which leading advocates of the rigged election theory touted evidence they knew to be disproven, disputed or dismissed as dubious. by Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Kirsten Berg

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