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- I'm Jonathan Lemire.

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I am the host of MSNBC's "Way Too Early,"

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and a regular contributor to "Morning Joe"

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and other programs.

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I'm also the White House
Bureau Chief at Politico.

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And my new book is called, "The Big Lie."

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Yeah, "The Big Lie" was
years in the making.

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And certainly Donald Trump,

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as both a private citizen and a candidate,

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no stranger to lies,

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but this particular one
started way back in 2016.

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He planted the seeds

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during a otherwise sleepy
rally in Ohio that August

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suggesting that he didn't think

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the election would be on the up and up.

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He did indeed, in a debate
with Hillary Clinton,

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say that he didn't think
it'd be conducted fairly.

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He did not promise to honor its results.

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He won that election, of course,

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but even then, suggested
there was voter fraud

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to explain his defeat in the popular vote.

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And then as 2020 rolled
around, he returned to it.

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He suggested mail-in
ballots would be fraudulent.

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He thought the system would
be rigged against him,

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sort of giving himself
an excuse if he lost

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but then it turned into
something far more dangerous,

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and after he was defeated in the election

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he repeatedly returned to those lies,

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those lies amplified
by fellow Republicans,

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amplified by Fox News and other
conservative media outlets.

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And his supporters believed them,

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and it led to the violence
that we saw on January 6th.

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