This ploy only works because social media is a rage-generating machine.

If you picked up the newspaper once each day, or twice each day, this ploy would not work.

But everyone has to chase the latest shiny thing.

So Trump puts out a shiny thing, which is no different from what he has been doing for years, and everyone chases the shiny thing as if it is somehow brand new.

And they stopped talking about what matters: An indictment to overturn the election.

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