By Analysis by Stephen Collinson
CNN
December 16, 2021
(CNN)If politics still turned on truth and facts, this would be the week when the lie-filled foundations of Donald Trump’s movement imploded, destroying his apparent dream of a return to power after the 2024 election.
But it is the ex-President’s greatest, most subversive victory that his empire of falsehoods will surely survive new disclosures that lay bare his own abuses of power and the voter-mocking deceit of his political and media enablers.