40 days of denial and disinformation after
President Trump's election loss
President Trump spent weeks before Election Day attacking mail-in voting and signaling he might not accept the results, but that didn’t fully prepare Americans for what he unleashed hours after the polls closed. With millions of votes uncounted and several states too close to call, Trump declared he had already won and that election officials were perpetrating a “fraud.”

So began an extraordinary campaign of denial and disinformation by a sitting president as Trump has refused to concede to Joe Biden and tried just about everything possible to overturn Biden’s victory. Still, with no evidence of widespread voter fraud, states have certified their results and electors are set to meet Monday to cast their votes to make Biden the next president.

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