Trump had been grooming for years finally overwhelmed the Republican Party and, as brake after brake fell away, was propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers, political organizers, financiers and the surround-sound right-wing media.
DAYS TRUMPS SUBVERT ELECTION TRIAL
In coming days, a presidential transition like no other will be dissected when he stands trial in the Senate on an impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection.” Yet his lie of an election stolen by corrupt and evil forces lives on in a divided America.Ī New York Times examination of the 77 democracy-bending days between election and inauguration shows how, with conspiratorial belief rife in a country ravaged by pandemic, a lie that Mr. 6 assault on the Capitol almost inevitable. Trump’s flimsy, long-shot legal effort to reverse his loss turned into something else entirely - an extralegal campaign to subvert the election, rooted in a lie so convincing to some of his most devoted followers that it made the deadly Jan. And with that, the election-law experts were sidelined in favor of the former New York City mayor, the man who once again was telling the president what he wanted to hear. Clark a liar, according to people with direct knowledge of the exchange. And a state audit was barreling toward a conclusion that the Dominion machines had operated without interference or foul play. Giuliani had in mind would be dismissed on procedural grounds. Giuliani, was on speaker phone, pressing the president to file a federal suit in Georgia and sharing a conspiracy theory gaining traction in conservative media - that Dominion Systems voting machines had transformed thousands of Trump votes into Biden votes. leading by more than 10,000 votes, against the 191 ballots they had identified for challenge.Īs he met with colleagues to discuss strategy, the president’s deputy campaign manager, Justin Clark, was urgently summoned to the Oval Office. The week was coming to a particularly demoralizing close: In Arizona, the Trump lawyers were preparing to withdraw their main lawsuit as the state tally showed Joseph R.
“Dead voters” were turning up alive in television and newspaper interviews.
A supposed suitcase of illegal ballots in Detroit proved to be a box of camera equipment. His presidency would soon be over.Īllegations of Democratic malfeasance had disintegrated in embarrassing fashion. Trump did not, could not, win the election, not by “a lot” or even a little. There was no substantial evidence of election fraud, and there were nowhere near enough “irregularities” to reverse the outcome in the courts. Trump’s election lawyers were concluding that the reality he faced was the inverse of the narrative he was promoting in his comments and on Twitter. Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud - a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power.īy Thursday the 12th of November, President Donald J.
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