Trump's Long Campaign to Steal the Presidency: A Timeline

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Trump’s Long Campaign to Steal the Presidency: A Timeline The insurrection was a complex, yearslong plot, not a one-day event. And it isn’t over.

Trump’s Long Campaign to Steal the Presidency: A Timeline
The insurrection wasn’t a one-day event. It was the culmination of a multifaceted, yearslong plot — and it isn’t over.
nymag.com
7:22 AM · Sep 7, 2021

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-campaign-steal-presidency-timeline.html


The House select committee’s investigation into the Capitol Riot and the various media ticktocks explaining what Donald Trump and his allies were doing in the days immediately leading up to it are casting new light on an important threat to American democracy. But the intense focus on a few wild days in Washington can be misleading as well. Trump’s campaign to steal the 2020 presidential election began shortly after the 2016 election, and arguably the moment of peak peril for Joe Biden’s inauguration had already passed by the time Trump addressed the Stop the Steal rally on January 6.

A full timeline of the attempted insurrection is helpful in putting Trump’s frantic, last-minute schemes into the proper context and countering the false impression that January 6 was an improvised, impossible-to-replicate event, rather than one part of an ongoing campaign. If Congress fails to seize its brief opportunity to reform our electoral system, the danger could recur in future elections — perhaps with a different, catastrophic outcome.

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[kentuck]

1. Democrats would do well to understand that.

It is not in his chemistry to ever admit that he lost.

His every-waking moment is spent on how he can get back into power.

[imaginary girl]

2. After reading the headline ...

... I expected them to discuss events at least as far back as 2013!