Big lie

Front page of Edouard Drumont's La Libre Parole (1893) with a caricature of a Jew grabbing the globe, implying their alleged desire to control the world. Caption: "Their Homeland".

The International Jew: The World's Problem published in Henry Ford's newspaper The Dearborn Independent (1920), an offshoot of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion giving rise to the ZOG conspiracy theory.

The big lie (German: große Lügecode: de is deprecated ) is a propaganda technique where someone tells a huge, outrageous lie repeatedly until people start to believe it. Adolf Hitler described this idea in his 1925 book Mein Kampf, explaining that people are more likely to believe a massive lie than a small one because they can't imagine anyone would dare to lie about something so big.

Big Lie Media

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  Adolf Hitler in early 1920s

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  Hitler claimed that Jews had spread the "big lie" that General Erich Ludendorff (pictured) was responsible for the country's loss in World War I.

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  Joseph Goebbels, the head of Nazi Germany's Ministry of Propaganda

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  Official Presidential Portrait of President Donald J. Trump in his second term

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  According to CNN fact checker Daniel Dale, as of June 9, 2021, former president Donald Trump had issued 132 written statements since leaving office, of which "a third have included lies about the election" – more than any other subject.

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  To sow election doubt, Trump escalated use of "rigged election" and "election interference" statements in advance of the 2024 election compared to the previous two elections—the statements described as part of a "heads I win; tails you cheated" rhetorical strategy.

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