OFF THE RAILS: Trump’s refusal to believe the election results was premeditated. He had heard about the “red mirage” — the likelihood that early vote counts would tip more Republican than the final tallies — and he decided to exploit it. https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

For weeks, Trump had been laying the groundwork to declare victory on election night — even if he lost. But real-time results, punctuated by Fox’s call to become the first outlet to call Arizona for Joe Biden, upended his plans and began his unraveling. https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

Over the next two months, Trump took the nation down with him as he descended into denial, despair and a reckless revenge streak that fueled a deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol by his backers seeking to overturn the election. https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

This triggered a constitutional crisis and a bipartisan push to impeach Trump on his way out the door, to try to cast him out of American politics for good. https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

"Off the rails," our new fly-on-the wall special series from @jonathanvswan
and @zacharybasu, takes you inside the collapse of a president with deep background interviews over the past couple of months. https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100