Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own | Jamil Smith

The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects There is a version of this country in which Donald Trump tells Americans the truth he has been handed: that their elections are secure. Once, he apparently wanted to. The Atlantic reported after Thursday night’s address that a February 2020 election-security briefing pleased Trump so much he wanted to announce the news himself. The press conference never happened. The election did, and Trump lost…