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. Trump allegedly wasn’t satisfied with their brand of politics, however, and was left frustrated by their objections to harsher immigration policies and Trump’s bid for a tighter grip on the Justice Department, reported The New York Times. McEntee, in particular, has prior experience rooting out obstructive staffers-in 2020, he was appointed to sniff out those working against Trump’s agenda, as Trump’s personnel chief.Įarlier this month, Trump allies made it clear they were cutting ties with the Federalist Society, which staffed most of the hard-line, conservative legal advisers during his first term. That includes using the Justice Department to target his political enemies and unleashing a new set of extreme anti-immigration policies, like setting up deportation camp s for undocumented immigrants.Īlso behind the effort are Stephen Miller and John McEntee, both of whom advised Trump during his last presidency and are expected to play key roles should Trump reclaim the Oval Office. Trump will use this army to implement his every whim.

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