At the state level, their tactics targeted state legislatures with the intent of changing the results or delaying the electoral vote certification at the Capitol. Ī small group of Trump loyalists, including Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and several Republican lawmakers from the House Freedom Caucus, attempted to keep Trump in power. State and federal judges, election officials, and state governors also decided the claims were baseless. attorney general, the director of National Intelligence, and the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – as well as some Trump campaign staff – dismissed these claims. Trump pressed Justice Department leaders to challenge the election results and publicly state the election was corrupt. Trump and his allies used the " big lie" propaganda technique to promote numerous false claims and conspiracy theories asserting that the election was stolen by means of rigged voting machines, electoral fraud and an international communist conspiracy.
Ten leaders of the far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups were later convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the Capitol attack. In June 2022, the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack said it has enough evidence to recommend that the U.S. One week later, Trump was impeached for incitement of insurrection but was acquitted by the Democratic-controlled Senate by a vote of 57–43, 10 votes short of the 67 votes (two-thirds of the Senate) required to convict him. These efforts culminated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack by Trump supporters, which was widely described as an attempted coup d'état. To overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential electionĪfter Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, then-incumbent Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support and assistance from his campaign, proxies, political allies, and many of his supporters. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and Washington, D.C.įabricated claims of electoral fraud
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