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Mark Wilson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Three days after Election Night 2020, dozens of CEOs from the nation s largest companies logged into a Zoom call aiming to prevent the collapse of American democracy, according to several attendees who spoke to ABC News.

The night before, then-President Donald Trump had falsely declared victory in an address at the White House, pointing to a count of what he called "legal votes."

"The CEOs were horrified," Yale University Professor of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who convened the meeting, told ABC News. Hastily assembled, some of the chief executives showed up to the early-morning call in pajamas and most expressed grave concerns, he added.

Sonnenfeld and other meeting attendees declined to identify the CEOs who participated in the call, since they did so on condition of anonymity.

"There was recognition that if Trump pulled this off, it could turn the U.S. into something other than the country ....

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