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When she realised it had been a phishing email, she contacted her bank and cancelled the card – but the deceit did not end there.

"The impact of his deceit and manipulation will be long felt, but justice has been served today," McGrath said.

The fact check is amnesiac insofar as it does not acknowledge the clear pattern of deceit from the man whose denial it takes at face value.

The media must find better ways to roll their individual callouts of Trumpist deceit into clear, compelling counternarratives that lay bare the broader pattern.

A few months later MacCallum was arrested and the full extent of the theft and deceit began to unravel.