false belief

It was part of an effort to overturn the results of the US election, inspired by the false belief that it was Trump, not President Joe Biden, who had won.

However, one LinkedIn post in particular - analysed by the BBC - appears to have had an outsized effect in stirring up the false belief that the dance class suspect was a migrant.

“Trump holds the ableist, false belief that if a person has a disability, they are less human and less worthy of dignity,” she said in a statement to The Washington Post.

Being smug and staying home out of a false belief that Trump cannot claw his way back to power now that he’s a felon on Election Day is precisely what Trump hopes.

“I start to absorb this false belief that they put together, and I’m accepting it as a truth,” Perez said years later in a deposition about what happened to his mental state during that interrogation.