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The following outline is provided to guide the reader through Wikipedia's articles related to the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
Blocks of text and refs were copied from each respective article; I'm using this section to do two things. First to gather articles and sections that might be in the outline. Second as a collection of article excerpts, which is intended as research notes to consider a standalone article on this subtopic.
1. Trump had knowledge that he lost the 2020 election, but spread misinformation to the American public and made false statements claiming significant voter fraud led to his defeat;
During his political career, Donald Trump has employed what has been characterized as the propaganda technique of a firehose of falsehood. [1] To support his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, he and his allies repeatedly and falsely claimed that there had been massive election fraud and that Trump was the true winner of the election. [2] [3] U.S. Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz subsequently contested the election results in the Senate. [4] Their effort was characterized as "the big lie" by then President-elect Joe Biden: "I think the American public has a real good, clear look at who they are. They're part of the big lie, the big lie." [5] Republican senators Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey, scholars of fascism Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Russian affairs expert Fiona Hill, and others also used the term "big lie" to refer to Trump's false claims about massive election fraud. [6] By May 2021, many Republicans had come to embrace the false narrative and use it as justification to impose new voting restrictions and attempt to take control of the administrative management of elections. [7] Republicans who opposed the narrative faced backlash. [8]
Dominion Voting Systems, which provided voting machines to many jurisdictions in the 2020 election, is seeking $1.3 billion in damages from Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. In the lawsuit, Dominion alleges that "he and his allies manufactured and disseminated the 'Big Lie', which foreseeably went viral and deceived millions of people into believing that Dominion had stolen their votes and fixed the election." [9]
In early 2021, The New York Times examined Trump's promotion of "the big lie" for political purposes to subvert the 2020 election, and concluded that the lie encouraged the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. [10] [11] The attack was cited in a resolution to impeach Trump for a second time. [12] During Trump's second impeachment trial, the house managers Jamie Raskin, Joe Neguse, Joaquin Castro, Stacey Plaskett and Madeleine Dean all used the phrase "the big lie" repeatedly to refer to the notion that the election was stolen, with a total of 16 mentions in the initial presentation alone. The phrase, leading up to and including the election period, formed the first section of the "provocation" part of the argument. [13] [14]
On October 7, the Senate Judiciary Committee released new testimony and a staff report, according to which: [15]
we were only a half-step away from a full blown constitutional crisis as President Donald Trump and his loyalists threatened a wholesale takeover of the Department of Justice (DOJ). They also reveal how former Acting Civil Division Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark became Trump's Big Lie Lawyer, pressuring his colleagues in DOJ to force an overturn of the 2020 election. [15]
In early 2022, The New York Times presented a detailed analysis of the continuing efforts by Trump and his allies to further promote "the big lie" and related lies in their attempts to overturn and influence future elections, including those in 2022 and 2024. [16] [17]
On June 13, 2022, the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack presented testimony that Trump knew he lost the 2020 election, but nevertheless, promoted the false narrative to exploit donors, and, as a result, raked in "half a billion" dollars. [18] [19]
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help page).Mr. Trump has outraged his political opponents and left even some of his longtime supporters shaking their heads at his mendacity. In embracing this big lie, however, the president has taken a path that often works – at least in countries without robustly independent legal systems and news media along with other reality checks.
Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!
May 26, 2020 [3]
President Trump repeatedly made false, misleading or baseless claims in his criticism of voting by mail in the United States. This included claims that other countries would print "millions of mail-in ballots", claims that "80 million unsolicited ballots" were being sent to Americans, and claims that Nevada's presidential election process was "100% rigged". [4] Another claim was alleging massive voter fraud. In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, who was appointed by Trump, testified under oath that the FBI had "not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise". [5]
It was zero threat. Right from the start, it was zero threat. ... Some of them went in, and they're hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know? They had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in, and they walked out.
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2. Trump planned to remove and replace the
Attorney General and Justice Department officials in an effort to force the
DOJ to support false allegations of election fraud;
3. Trump pressured Vice President Pence to
refuse certified electoral votes in the official count on January 6, in violation of the
U.S. Constitution;
4. Trump pressured state lawmakers and election officials to alter election results in his favor;
5. Trump’s legal team and associates
directed Republicans in seven states to produce and send fake "
alternate" electoral
slates to Congress and the National Archives;
6. Trump summoned and assembled a destructive mob in
Washington and sent them to march on the U.S. Capitol; and
7. Trump ignored multiple requests to speak out in real-time against the mob violence, refused to instruct his supporters to disband and failed to take any immediate actions to halt attacks on the Capitol.
Attempts to overturn
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Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Arizona Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Michigan Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Nevada Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Pennsylvania Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Wisconsin Texas v. Pennsylvania
8 Domestic reactions to the 2021 United States Capitol attack
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Category:Controversies of the 2020 United States presidential election
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The following outline is provided to guide the reader through Wikipedia's articles related to the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
Blocks of text and refs were copied from each respective article; I'm using this section to do two things. First to gather articles and sections that might be in the outline. Second as a collection of article excerpts, which is intended as research notes to consider a standalone article on this subtopic.
1. Trump had knowledge that he lost the 2020 election, but spread misinformation to the American public and made false statements claiming significant voter fraud led to his defeat;
During his political career, Donald Trump has employed what has been characterized as the propaganda technique of a firehose of falsehood. [1] To support his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, he and his allies repeatedly and falsely claimed that there had been massive election fraud and that Trump was the true winner of the election. [2] [3] U.S. Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz subsequently contested the election results in the Senate. [4] Their effort was characterized as "the big lie" by then President-elect Joe Biden: "I think the American public has a real good, clear look at who they are. They're part of the big lie, the big lie." [5] Republican senators Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey, scholars of fascism Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Russian affairs expert Fiona Hill, and others also used the term "big lie" to refer to Trump's false claims about massive election fraud. [6] By May 2021, many Republicans had come to embrace the false narrative and use it as justification to impose new voting restrictions and attempt to take control of the administrative management of elections. [7] Republicans who opposed the narrative faced backlash. [8]
Dominion Voting Systems, which provided voting machines to many jurisdictions in the 2020 election, is seeking $1.3 billion in damages from Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. In the lawsuit, Dominion alleges that "he and his allies manufactured and disseminated the 'Big Lie', which foreseeably went viral and deceived millions of people into believing that Dominion had stolen their votes and fixed the election." [9]
In early 2021, The New York Times examined Trump's promotion of "the big lie" for political purposes to subvert the 2020 election, and concluded that the lie encouraged the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. [10] [11] The attack was cited in a resolution to impeach Trump for a second time. [12] During Trump's second impeachment trial, the house managers Jamie Raskin, Joe Neguse, Joaquin Castro, Stacey Plaskett and Madeleine Dean all used the phrase "the big lie" repeatedly to refer to the notion that the election was stolen, with a total of 16 mentions in the initial presentation alone. The phrase, leading up to and including the election period, formed the first section of the "provocation" part of the argument. [13] [14]
On October 7, the Senate Judiciary Committee released new testimony and a staff report, according to which: [15]
we were only a half-step away from a full blown constitutional crisis as President Donald Trump and his loyalists threatened a wholesale takeover of the Department of Justice (DOJ). They also reveal how former Acting Civil Division Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark became Trump's Big Lie Lawyer, pressuring his colleagues in DOJ to force an overturn of the 2020 election. [15]
In early 2022, The New York Times presented a detailed analysis of the continuing efforts by Trump and his allies to further promote "the big lie" and related lies in their attempts to overturn and influence future elections, including those in 2022 and 2024. [16] [17]
On June 13, 2022, the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack presented testimony that Trump knew he lost the 2020 election, but nevertheless, promoted the false narrative to exploit donors, and, as a result, raked in "half a billion" dollars. [18] [19]
References
NYT-20201130
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).Mr. Trump has outraged his political opponents and left even some of his longtime supporters shaking their heads at his mendacity. In embracing this big lie, however, the president has taken a path that often works – at least in countries without robustly independent legal systems and news media along with other reality checks.
Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!
May 26, 2020 [3]
President Trump repeatedly made false, misleading or baseless claims in his criticism of voting by mail in the United States. This included claims that other countries would print "millions of mail-in ballots", claims that "80 million unsolicited ballots" were being sent to Americans, and claims that Nevada's presidential election process was "100% rigged". [4] Another claim was alleging massive voter fraud. In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, who was appointed by Trump, testified under oath that the FBI had "not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise". [5]
It was zero threat. Right from the start, it was zero threat. ... Some of them went in, and they're hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know? They had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in, and they walked out.
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2. Trump planned to remove and replace the
Attorney General and Justice Department officials in an effort to force the
DOJ to support false allegations of election fraud;
3. Trump pressured Vice President Pence to
refuse certified electoral votes in the official count on January 6, in violation of the
U.S. Constitution;
4. Trump pressured state lawmakers and election officials to alter election results in his favor;
5. Trump’s legal team and associates
directed Republicans in seven states to produce and send fake "
alternate" electoral
slates to Congress and the National Archives;
6. Trump summoned and assembled a destructive mob in
Washington and sent them to march on the U.S. Capitol; and
7. Trump ignored multiple requests to speak out in real-time against the mob violence, refused to instruct his supporters to disband and failed to take any immediate actions to halt attacks on the Capitol.
Attempts to overturn
do correlation check
Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Arizona Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Michigan Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Nevada Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Pennsylvania Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Wisconsin Texas v. Pennsylvania
8 Domestic reactions to the 2021 United States Capitol attack
look here for more articles to include in outline
Category:Controversies of the 2020 United States presidential election