How Trump lost
Nov 13, 2020
4 minutes
BY BRIAN BENNETT AND TESSA BERENSON
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With reporting by
MOLLY BALL, MARIAH ESPADA
and
ABBY VESOULIS
IT ALL FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO HIM. THE LIES, THE boasts, the disorder and disastrous management, the rants and the race-baiting, the predatory instincts and compulsion to dominate—all the things that made Donald Trump the ringmaster of the American political circus at last compelled a majority of voters to drive him out of the tent.
Modern American history had not seen his like: a showman President who held rapt the country he inflamed, and asked little of citizens except praise. In the end, Trump’s pride did not just precede his fall; it precipitated it. Until the final months, his campaign was
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