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The Velveteen Ocelot

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6. They carefully, though not very convincingly, tiptoed around it:
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 01:04 PM
Feb 2021

“Insufficient evidence exists upon which a reasonable jurist could conclude that the 45th president’s statements were accurate or not, and he therefore denies they were false,” Castor and Schoen wrote, adding that Trump “denies” it is false to say he won the election “in a landslide.” That is to say, they claim Trump reasonably believed the false election claims and that there isn't enough evidence to say for sure his statements weren't true. They just barely avoided a flat-out lie with this language, but let's see what happens when they have to present the case to the Senate.

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