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I know that Trump was something of a bad loser when Biden was elected, and that he encouraged the riots on Capitol Hill, but I had not heard (from the media med
by seabass-labrax 2y ago
I know that Trump was something of a bad loser when Biden was elected, and that he encouraged the riots on Capitol Hill, but I had not heard (from the media media here in Britain) that he attempted to rig the election. Could you provide a source for this please?
- vitus 2y agoPossibly a reference to the fake electors plot [0], although there was also the phone call to the Georgia secretary of state asking him to find 11,780 more votes [1], the pressure he applied to his VP to reject the election results [2], the subsequent Jan 6 riot that disrupted the certification... At least some of these were covered by BBC [3, 4]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_phone_call https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence#Vote_counting_and_storming_of_the_Capitol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence#Vote_counting_and_s... [3] https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55524838 https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55524838 [4] https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55559172 https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55559172
- seabass-labrax 2y agoThank you, vitus!
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- kentm 2y agoHe also tried to get the DoJ to label the election as suspicious. Don’t have an immediate reference for that but it was surfaced by the Jan 6 committee.