Trumps campaign subvert election trial#

Trumps campaign subvert election trial#

In coming days, a presidential transition like no other will be dissected when he stands trial in the Senate on an impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection.” Yet his lie of an election stolen by corrupt and evil forces lives on in a divided America.Ī New York Times examination of the 77 democracy-bending days between election and inauguration shows how, with conspiratorial belief rife in a country ravaged by pandemic, a lie that Mr. 6 assault on the Capitol almost inevitable. 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. As he met with colleagues to discuss strategy, the president’s deputy campaign manager, Justin Clark, was urgently summoned to the Oval Office.