20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election President Trump arrives to deliver remarks in the White House press briefing room on Nov. 20. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Philip Rucker , Ashley Parker , Josh Dawsey and Amy Gardner November 28, 2020 at 4:08 p.m. PST Add to list The facts were indisputable: President Trump had lost. But Trump refused to see it that way. Sequestered in the White House and brooding out of public view after his election defeat, rageful and at times delirious in a torrent of private conversations, Trump was, in the telling of one close adviser, like “Mad King George, muttering, ‘I won. I won. I won.’ ” However cleareyed Trump’s aides may have been about his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, many of them nonetheless indulged their boss and encouraged him to keep fighting with legal appeals. They were “happy to scratch his itch,” this adviser said. “If he thinks he won, it’s like, ‘Shh . . . we won’t tell him.’ ”
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