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1/ Trump may be no good at leading America – but he's really, really good at lying per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc via @guardianUS ,Fauci dares to say that America is not, in fact, doing great, even when the red baseball cap claims otherwise.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 2/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc Even when all of the president’s minions tell him he looks awesome in a face mask.

This is not a fair fight.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 3/ In the blue corner is a world-renowned scientist whom 67% of Americans trust for accurate information about the coronavirus. per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc In the red corner is a world-renowned grifter whom 26% of Americans trust for the same information.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 4/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc Only one of them suggested injecting disinfectant as a cure for Covid-19, which would obviously disappear like a miracle, after he protected the nation with a travel ban that was clearly perfect.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 5/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc He’s the one who paid someone to take the SAT exam on his behalf.

It’s tempting to blame one sociopathic man for what we’re suffering. But it truly takes a village to allow such a spectacular village idiot to thrive.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 6/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary who promised she would never lie to the press, has spent the past two months, well, lying to the press.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 7/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc“There is no opposition research being dumped to reporters,” she claimed on Monday.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 8/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc “We were asked a very specific question by the Washington Post, and that question was President Trump noted that Dr Fauci had made some mistakes, and we provided a direct answer to what was a direct question.”

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 9/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc Kayleigh: here’s the thing. In another six months, you’ll be looking for a new job. One of your predecessors is now trying to sell grills on Instagram.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 10/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc That market is already crowded, and there aren’t many other household goods to endorse on social media.

In Trumpland, there is no herd immunity to this disease.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 11/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedcThey have been infected for so long, they are happy to sneeze full viral loads in the hope that everyone succumbs to the same lies.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 12/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedcSo what if the polls consistently show their boss losing to Joe Biden by such large numbers that they are outside the margin of error?

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 13/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedcThe only margin of error that matters is saying something that might break the mirror that Trump stares at every day.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 14/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedcBrad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, claims that polls are “the biggest joke in politics” and “the fakest thing.”

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 15/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc This is from the genius behind the mostly empty rally in Tulsa that was more effective as a coronavirus comeback than a political one

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 16/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc It’s that kind of fact-denying brilliance that leads our antihero to sit on the wrong side of precisely every issue of the day.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 17/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc On Monday Trump tried yet again to smear Biden by claiming he was on the side of “radical” and “reckless politicians” who are opposed to what he called “our law enforcement heroes”.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 18/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc This was just the first working day after Trump commuted the sentence of a convicted felon who lied to protect him – in opposition to the career prosecutors who might be considered “our law enforcement heroes”.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 19/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc Irony may be dead in Trump’s America, but the polling isn’t.

While Trump is trying to whip up opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement, the country has already made up its mind.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 20/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc A clear majority of Americans – 60% – agree with the ideas of Black Lives Matter, and similar numbers support major reforms to policing. As it happens, around the same numbers disapprove of Trump’s handling of the protests.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 21/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc Why would anyone campaigning for reelection waste a whole day talking to just 40% of the country?

Because Donald Trump has lied so often, to so many people, that he believes his own version of reality.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 22/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc It is just one of the multiple truths that is so familiar to anyone living in Putin’s Russia.

Restoring sanity and science is impossible inside a White House where Trump’s fantasies rule.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 23/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc We will endure six more months of Fauci-bashing before we can turn the tide on this pandemic.

Fauci will of course survive.

@richardwolffedc @GuardianUS 24/ per bit.ly/2CEqQKV by @richardwolffedc But it will take many more years to restore America’s credibility after this confederacy of dunces is swept out.

• Richard Wolffe is a Guardian US columnist

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