Trump Brings Full Weight of Government to Bolster False Election Claims
Intelligence agencies provided the White House with a trove of declassified documents that President Trump cited on Thursday as evidence of election vulnerabilities.
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By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Nick Corasaniti and Dustin Volz
Zolan Kanno-Youngs reports on the White House. Nick Corasaniti covers voting and elections. Dustin Volz reports on cybersecurity and intelligence.
When President Trump tried to undermine and overturn the election results in 2020, he ran into stiff pushback — not just in the courts, but from many officials in his own government.
He made sure there would be little room for such dissent when he returned to the White House. Those seeking to join Mr. Trump’s second administration had to pass a key litmus test : Did they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump?
