The definitive inside look at Trump's campaign to overturn a democratic election that he lost, by the all-star team of ⁦ @jimrutenberg⁩ ⁦ @Jo_Becker⁩ ⁦ @EricLiptonNYT⁩ ⁦ @maggieNYT⁩ ⁦ @jmartNYT⁩ ⁦ @AllMattNYT⁩ ⁦ @nytmike⁩ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html?referringSource=articleShare
77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election

Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a sham — putting himself at the center of a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html?referringSource=articleShare
How Kushner and Meadows reassured McConnell that Trump would eventually face reality and acknowledge defeat.
How Trump's team had an Electoral College pool on Air Force One returning from the final campaign rally and Eric Trump predicted his father would get 320 votes. (He got 232.)
How a conspiracy theorist called a "con man" by his own lawyer and a retired general banned by Fox News for lying about McCain promulgated false assertions about the election.
How Trump called Georgia's Republican attorney general to tell him not to interfere after the attorney general criticized a lawsuit seeking to invalidate his state's election results favoring Biden.
How a four-hour meeting in the White House exploring ways to overturn the election turned into a shouting match. “It was really damned close to fistfights."
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