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Timothy Noah at The Atlantic writes—The Trump You’ve Yet to Meet. Just because we know bad things about the 45th president, don’t assume that there’s nothing bad left to find out.

How well do we know Donald Trump? Pretty well, it would seem. Nobody has ever accused the outgoing president of possessing a complex personality.

On Monday, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed and certified the Grand Canyon state’s election results, sending president-elect 11 electoral points. This was [looks at notes] the third time Joe Biden won Arizona this year! Donald Trump and his cabal of treasonous coup promoters, continue to say that not only has the Democratic Party rigged all of the elections that are predominantly controlled by Republican officials, Republican officials are now complicit in treason.

From the earliest days of COVID-19 response, Americans have worried about how certain industries would fare amid shutdowns and economy dips.

Just two weeks ago, the National Science Foundation (NSF) made the sad decision to permanently close the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, after damage to the 1,000-foot-wide instrument rendered it unstable to even inspect, much less operate.

It isn’t normal for an American political party to cling to a defeated, one-term president. But by all indications, since the Nov. 3 election, nearly the entirety of the Republican Party appears to have collectively committed itself, for the foreseeable future, to the fortunes of a demonstrably unstable and mercurial reality TV show personality—one whose political acumen over the course of the past four years has been questionable at best.