Jim Rutenberg

77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election

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.

Pub Date:

Sun, 01/31/2021

Author:

Jim Rutenberg

Source:

New York Times

Link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html

Thursday the 12th was the day Mr. 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. 6 assault on the Capitol almost inevitable.

Trump’s Fraud Claims Died in Court, but the Myth of Stolen Elections Lives On

For years, Republicans have used the specter of cheating as a reason to impose barriers to ballot access. A definitive debunking of claims of wrongdoing in 2020 has not changed that message.

Pub Date:

Sat, 12/26/2020

Author:

Source:

Link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/politics/republicans-voter-fraud.html