https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html Campaign to Subvert the 2020 Election Trump’s Role Key Takeaways Extremist Wing of G.O.P. 77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud — a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power. Credit... Illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban By Jim Rutenberg , Jo Becker , Eric Lipton , Maggie Haberman , Jonathan Martin , Matthew Rosenberg and Michael S. Schmidt Jan. 31, 2021 By Thursday the 12th of November, President Donald J. Trump’s election lawyers were concluding that the reality he faced was the inverse of the narrative he was promoting in his comments and on Twitter. There was no substantial evidence of election fraud, and there were nowhere near enough “irregularities” to reverse the outcome in the courts. Mr. Trump did not, could not, win the election, not by “a lot” or e