77 Days: Trumpâs Campaign to Subvert the Election
Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud â a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power.
Credit...Illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban
Published Jan. 31, 2021Updated Feb. 12, 2021
By Thursday the 12th of November, President Donald J. Trumpâs election lawyers were concluding that the reality he faced was the inverse of the narrative he was promoting in his comments and on Twitter. There was no substantial evidence of election fraud, and there were nowhere near enough âirregularitiesâ to reverse the outcome in the courts.