https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/leaked-audio-steve-bannon-trump-2020-election-declare-victory/
On the evening of October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of
associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night—even if he was losing. Trump knew that the slow counting
of Democratic-leaning mail-in ballots meant the returns would show early
leads for him in key states. His “strategy” was to use this fact to
assert that he had won, while claiming that the inevitable shifts in
vote totals toward Joe Biden must be the result of fraud, Bannon explained.
“What Trump’s gonna do is just declare victory. Right? He’s gonna
declare victory. But that doesn’t mean he’s a winner,” Bannon, laughing, told the group, according to audio of the meeting obtained by Mother
Jones. “He’s just gonna say he’s a winner.”
Trump’s plan to falsely declare victory while tens of millions of votes
were still being counted was public knowledge even before the election.
Axios reported on the scheme at the time. Bannon himself discussed the
idea on November 3—Election Day—on his War Room podcast. Weeks earlier, Bannon had interviewed a former Trump administration official who
outlined how Trump would use allegations of fraud to dispute an
electoral defeat and would seek to have Congress declare him the winner.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/msnbcs-beat-ari-melber-obtains-2020-video-trump-advisor-roger-stone-planning-fake-electors
ARI MELBER (HOST): That was before the presidential race had even been
called for Biden. This is important, take a look. Stone pushing the
elector plot as you just saw with your own eyes all the way back on
November 5th, 2020. That's a shot of the video on the left that we just
have broken here as news tonight. Now, people had voted, but the race
had not even been called.
It was actually two full days later, November 7, 2020, when the numbers
and the nonpartisan outlets called Biden defeats Trump for White House.
That timeline hurts the Trump defense that we've heard so much about,
that these individuals pushing these plots were acting in a good faith
belief they had won.
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