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Mounting Evidence Of Lying By The Trump Administration About Why They’re Adding A Citizenship Question To The 2020 Census May Not Be Enough To Keep It Off…
But that’s why it’s important to keep telling the story…
Now that Trump’s back on U.S. soil, and the nonsense about very definitely calling someone “nasty” and then denying it, and what he wore, and who paid for drinks in Ireland is over, one of the stories we strongly felt was being neglected is picking up some momentum.
And that’s good, because the effectiveness of this story will probably hinge on the telling of it, since we’re more than a little skeptical it’ll have any impact at all in the real world. Because even though there appears to be a real smoking gun, it’s likely whatever the reason, and however it was rolled out, and however many lies were told, and however much the evidence piles up, the question will get on.
The latest, most damning revelation is an odd story, and here’s how it started: a legendary Republican strategist, Tom Hofeller, died last summer, and his daughter has since found a bunch of drives with information about — among other things, some of which we don’t know about yet — how to get a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and how to use that question as an excuse to…
